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...whole Iranian army has been vaccinated-against typhus fever. The ambitious project is the work of a U.S. Army surgeon, Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, who has been tackling one unprecedented epidemiological problem after another at Teheran...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to manufacture typhus vaccine by the new Cox egg-culture method.* Dr. Neuwirth vaccinated thousands of Iranians where typhus threatened, induced the Government to order compulsory vaccination of the whole army-some 200,000 soldiers. (No vaccine against typhus gives sure-fire protection, but vaccination helps...
...Next to typhus, Iran's biggest menace is leishmania, a mysteriously infectious disease (causing extreme enlargement of spleen and liver, and grey pigmentation of the skin) which kills thousands of natives (who call it kala azar or "black disease"). Leishmania in another form leaves thousands of survivors scarred by disfiguring...
...German anti-lice lotion may free the Nazi Army of the specter which haunted it last winter in Eastern Europe -typhus fever. The formula is still a German secret which the Russians would like to share. But the A.M.A. Journal last fortnight gave one possible clue to its ingredients. A Professor Morell put lice on horses, observed that they fell off dead almost at once. The lice were killed, he discovered, by the horses' sweat...
...F.A.U. has other units at work in Libya (Tobruk), Syria and Ethiopia. Sixteen men were lost in Greece. Already two F.A.U. men in China have died of typhus and one was captured by Japanese in Hong Kong. The major operation in China involves transport of medical supplies to hospitals. . . . The program is largely financed with American funds from United China Relief...