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In all Canton, a city of nearly 1,000,000, there was only one foreign doctor to fight the epidemic: Frank H. Herrington, who resigned from the U.S. Navy last fall to join UNRRA. He diagnosed 162 cases of cholera, watched the fatality rate climb to 50%. Canton lacked cholera...
Faced with this crisis, Herrington flew to Shanghai, wangled 200,000 doses of cholera vaccine from UNRRA supplies and local labs. Additional vaccine for 1,000,000 persons was promised, planes chartered to speed chlorine for Canton's polluted water system. Unless the anti-epidemic supplies arrived promptly, Herrington...
According to Rockefeller Foundation researchers, this year's flu is less mild than in the 1943 epidemic. It makes people "pretty sick." The Army's new flu vaccine (which cuts cases 75%) will soon be available to civilians. Cost of a shot: around $2.50.
¶ Last autumn, 30-year-old Dr. Richard Henderson, trying to find a vaccine for scrub typhus, died of the disease.*
* Production of a preventive vaccine in England has just been announced. U.S. results are still a military secret.