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Frame has been concerned for 17 years with the medical care of missionaries, many of them working in Africa. He has been struck repeatedly by the number reported each year to have died from fever of unknown origin, despite proper treatment for such diseases as malaria and typhus. Frame suspected that some of these mysterious fevers might be caused by still unrecognized viruses, so he arranged to get blood specimens from returning missionaries and from sick missionaries still in Africa. His reasoning: the viruses would have left indelible footprints, in the form of antibodies, in their victims' blood...
...gnawing holes in buildings and contaminating food, Texarkana's rats cause about $3 million of damage a year. With their eleven internal parasites and 18 kinds of fleas, they expose people to rat-bite fever, murine typhus, bubonic plague and other diseases. Yet the city's residents have become appallingly adapted to the rats. As one retired Negro farmer casually puts it: "They play like ants behind my house...
...chemicals concocted by man have been so widely used and so thoroughly applauded as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, more commonly known as DDT. It has proved its unmatched power in the worldwide battle against those pestborne killers, typhus, encephalitis and, particularly, malaria. Its mastery over the mosquitoes that carry malaria has undoubtedly spared millions of people from death and debilitating infection. Equally potent in saving crops, it has almost doubled the yield from U.S. cotton fields in the past two decades by controlling the boll weevil. Even the Swedes, who have decided to ban the chemical, readily acknowledge its effectiveness. In 1948 they...
Typhoid & Typhus. Chloromycetin also saves lives, and in some cases when no other drug is likely to do so. How many? Most medical opinion holds that Chloromycetin is just about the best drug against psittacosis ("parrot fever"), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, a total of 484 cases; murine typhus, 33 cases; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 263 cases; one form of meningitis caused by Hemophilus bacilli, exact number of cases not known, but probably less than...
Reed died of typhus in Russia in 1920. He was 33. Top revolutionary leaders praised "Harvard's communist son" at a state funeral