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...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...
...scientific writer asserts that Goodpasture's development of viruses in chick embryo-which opened the way for large-scale production of vaccines against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
...traveler exposed to cholera in Naples can land in New York the next day without realizing that he has picked up the disease. A homeward-bound Denverite may leave a typhus area in China, sit down at his own table two days later, unaware that typhus germs are at work in his system. Because the incubation period for many diseases is a fortnight or longer, air travel has multiplied the chances of travelers' bringing disease home with them. Yet the quarantine system has scarcely changed in 500 years...
...Witness Alfred Balachowsky, physician, remembered thousands of men & women whose livers were removed, who were shot with poisoned bullets or infected with typhus bacilli by German scientists. Said French Prosecutor Charles Dubost: "German medical literature is very rich in experiments on adults who died suddenly between the hours...
Perspiration Handicap. Malaria, dysentery, smallpox, typhus and sandfly fever were everpresent. But no disease was as terrible to the P.G.C. as the fierce Iranian heat. Normal summer temperature was around 140 degrees...