Word: typhus
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...louse may be the greatest of war's horrors," the editorial opened. "By the disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...
...Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing for five years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made...
...incident which the book omits : For a while in Mongolia, Author Peck kept a pet chicken in his room. One day, during an epidemic of deadly typhus, Peck felt logy, and noticed pink spots all up & down his left arm. He was sure he had typhus. Deciding to die gallantly, he persuaded a friend to help drink down first a bottle of brandy, then a bottle of vodka. When he awoke next afternoon with no recollection of having done any cooking, he found his room a mess of feathers, blood, picked bones. The pink spots were gone, and Graham Peck...
Climaxing a 20-year search for a means to combat effectively typhus fever, Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; John F. Enders, assistant professor in the same field, and Dr. Harry Plotz, visiting research expert from the Pasteur Institute of Paris, announced yesterday in the publication, Science, the discovery of a new method making possible the production of enough vaccine to immunize an entire nation from the louse-carried scourge...
...Medical School, the vaccine will be available to all nations immediately, it was revealed. The disease, which has been a deadly plague for centuries in Europe and Asia, has a mortality rate of 60% in Europe and 30% in America during epidemics. The discovery is especially pertinent now since typhus is a major medical worry in the present European war. Nearly 7,000,000 cases were reported in Russia in the years...