Word: typhus
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After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
...families were getting their drinking water from the silt-laden Tocantins River. Their only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
Rats & Shaving Brushes. The P.H.S. was established in John Adams' administration, on July 16, 1798, to care for ailing seamen. Its job still begins at the water's edge. Quarantine Servicemen inspect arriving ships (and planes) for victims of smallpox, plague, cholera, typhus, yellow fever (the five diseases defined as "quarantinable" by international agreement). Those with other communicable diseases are passed on to local health authorities to deal with. On all ships the P.H.S. looks for evidence of rats,* which might carry plague. They check imported shaving brushes for signs of anthrax...
Last spring a five-man team of doctors at the British Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, about 200 miles from Singapore, began treating victims of scrub typhus with the new antibiotic* called chloromycetin (TIME, Nov. 10). Chloromycetin reduced the fever in one day. But in two cases the fever did not go down until the third day. The doctors checked again, found that the two third-day patients actually had typhoid fever. They picked eight cases of known typhoid fever, again reduced the fever in three days. Three cases of typhoid in Baltimore hospitals later responded the same...
First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...