Word: typhus
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...Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, a U.S. Army medical officer on leave, is health adviser (TIME, Nov. 9). Smallpox, typhus and typhoid epidemics are continuous. Seven out of every ten Persian children die before they are nine years old. The Government refused to order compulsory inoculations, fearing that the hungry people would revolt. Best Neuwirth could get was inoculation of the entire Persian army. With the backing of the Prime Minister, Neuwirth has finally won approval for a closed water system to replace Teheran's open ditches, contaminated by street sweepings, garbage, dogs, horses, filthy humanity...
Indicted for carrying poliomyelitis, the house mouse last week was convicted of typhus. George Brigham and Edgar G. Perkins of the U.S. Public Health Service announced in Public Health Reports that they had after arduous research recovered typhus virus from seven Georgia house mice-first proof that U.S. house mice can carry the disease...
...Herald Rea Cox, 34, U.S. Public Health Service bacteriologist stationed at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Mont. He found a new and safer method of making typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccines-cultivating them inside half-incubated eggs. The typhus vaccine is being used by the U.S., Britain and Canada to immunize their armed forces...
These desperate homegoers will return to many villages that have been destroyed and towns that have been razed or are filled with strangers. They will bring with them orphans, old and insane folk. They will bring scurvy, trachoma, malaria, typhus, and dysentery from eating grass and earth. Starvation may be so prevalent that the cannibalism of 1919 may again strike eastern Europe. Railroads that should carry these desperate people will be totally disorganized; horses may all have been eaten. No reserves of fuel and clothing will be on hand; no state authorities will exist to guide them. China, Japan, Malaya...
China's Army of 5,000,000 has less than 1,000 doctors (the U.S. aim is to have six and a half doctors for every 1,000 troops). Chinese soldiers are universally infested with lice, making them ready prey to typhus. Modern methods of camp sanitation are almost unknown. For every man wounded or killed, ten die of disease. (In the U.S. World War I army, only one died of disease for every 14 wounded or killed...