Word: typhus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials. The rabbis were terrified. Father Singer carefully bathed, prayed, donned his Sabbath best, and resignedly marched off to the meeting. Instead of catastrophe, he met only courtesy. Beneath a portrait of the Kaiser, an epauleted military doctor displayed a big picture of a louse, explained that it caused typhus, and reminded the rabbis that cleanliness accorded well with their religion. It is probably the last time in history that a German enjoined a Jew to better Judaism...
...photography manages to be even more misleading than the sound track. Unless this film was heavily re-cut in this country, the Japanese must be blamed for doing far worse than most American companies would dare. The camera ambles along the Mekong River, through rice paddies, Saigon boulevards, and typhus hospitals, until finally, we see a line of soldiers marching through a field. There are long digressions on Saigon sanitation primitive Mco tribesmen ("they will probably never enjoy the benefits of advanced civilization"), and a Japanese-built dam. We are told that there are thousands of refugees streaming into Saigon...
...destination unknown. Aboard ship, the strangeness continues. An officer announces that for the present the stern of the vessel must be barred to passengers for technical reasons. What reasons? The officer explains to them that two of the ship's company are ill with a rare form of typhus. The passengers split into two distrustful groups-one angrily determined to find the freighter's secret, the other willing to accept the typhus explanation and make the best of the well-stocked bar. As the voyage broods on to mutiny, the division widens. On one side, pride parades...
...count could be made. Another 63 averaged 16,527 germs per square centimeter, but even worse than the germs' quantity was their quality. Half the towels were loaded with staphylococci, which cause boils and wound infections. A third of the towels bore colon bacteria, which spread dysentery, typhus and typhoid...
...Cold as Marble. When the fever began its rampages three years ago in Bolivia's northeastern province of Beni, the dirt-poor villagers around San Joaquin called it "the black typhus." But this was a far deadlier disease. It struck almost one-third of the population, and killed about one-third of its victims. Men and women of all ages were stricken. First came fever, chills and headache. Then, in many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes...