Word: vibrio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having overcome this and other transportation problems, Snedaker had to meet still another: fear that a magazine from Egypt would transmit the cholera vibrio. To clear up this misapprehension, Egypt's Ministry of Public Health satisfied itself that a cholera vibrio could exist no more than three hours on a diet of TIME - or any other periodical. This fact was duly spread by the Egyptian press, and TIME continued to move over the Egyptian border by special truck - giving the vibrios plenty of time to expire...
Caused by comma-shaped bacteria known as Vibrio or Spirillum cholerae, which dwell in sewage-contaminated water, cholera drains body tissues of their fluids, causes intense vomiting, diarrhea and violent muscular spasms. More than a third of its victims shrivel up, turn dark grey or violet, die, sometimes within a few hours...