Word: typhus
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Manthorp also helps each man buy the right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
...Army doctors developed vaccines, extracts or serums against many diseases, including typhus, poison ivy and rinderpest (disease of cattle especially destructive in the Philippines). Hospital Surgeon Benjamin Waterhouse brought vaccination for smallpox...
...Typhus. The northern spring pulled back the sheets of snow and revealed the dead in Norway (see cut). Cleanup squadrons found hundreds of bodies daily in rubble of Stalingrad...
There was mud in Russia, and typhus and a fear that the Germans, thrown back in the winter, would return on the dry fields of summer. Again the Russians hoped for a second front...