Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bogey. Said the Rome radio: "Every bomb razing a house to the ground opens the road to subversive ideas and creates a hotbed of revolution. . . . What victory . . . what security can the Anglo-Americans draw from a Europe in the throes of revolution, permeated through and through by the Communist virus...
Medical knowledge of prevention is even more meager. About all doctors know is that: 1) flies, mosquitoes, and perhaps rats can carry the virus; 2) healthy human carriers are common; 3) the dis ease is almost certainly transmitted through the mouth as well as the nose; 4) children's tonsils should not be removed during hot summer months...
...sudden outbreak took only six days to develop epidemic fury, jumped from seven to 39 cases. A quick-striking, infectious virus disease, dengue (pro nounced denggy) is almost never fatal, but for a week or ten days it lays out its victims, causing high fever, rashes and painful swellings, severe pains in head, eyes, muscles, joints. Mosquitoes carry...
Rifles and Quicklime. John Mohler's most dramatic battles were fought against foot-& -mouth disease. When a tuberculous cow is dead, the chief danger of spreading TB is past. Not so with foot-& -mouth disease, which is caused by a nonfilterable virus carried from place to place by cattle or humans, by flying crows, by a piece of barnyard straw wafted in the wind...
...doubt Author McHugh hopes that his readers will contract hlehhana from reading I Am Thinking of My Darling. Old McHugh hands may well laugh themselves sick. Others may surprise Author McHugh by developing a stubborn immunity to the laughing virus the longer they are exposed to this somewhat overlabored fantasy...