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Died. Dr. Wu Lien-teh, 81, plague expert who saved thousands of his fellow Chinese by rushing vaccine to them when the 1910 pneumonic plague epidemic struck, by convincing them that the plague was not a visitation of the gods but a curable earthly ill; in Penang, Malaya.
How fortunate he was is shown by the fate of 33 New Jersey victims: 21 died, eleven had brain damage, only one recovered fully. Once infection sets in, no treatment has any effect on the progress of EEE - or, as the experts called it more often last week, EVE, short...
Heads in the Reefer. Dozens of dogs have been proved rabid, and in the county health department's refrigerator at El Centro there is a big backlog of heads from destroyed animals. Microbiologist Ella Capers Weston has not had time to check them all, has sent an overflow to...
In Calexico, a door-to-door check was in progress to make sure that every dog or cat was vaccinated against rabies. In Mexicali. health officers opened vaccination clinics for dogs, got 5.000 vaccine doses from the Pan American Health Organization. It looked like too little, too late; more than...
* Still usually so-called because Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine from the ground-up spinal cords of rabbits in which the virus had grown and become weakened. But most vaccine now used in the U.S. is the Semple type (for David Semple, English physician, 1856-1937), in which the...