Word: bacillus
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Botulin, manufactured by a common bacillus in badly preserved food, is the most deadly poison known: one ounce theoretically could kill 100 million people...
...from a world tour (at his own expense), during which he saw that tuberculosis is still riding high and fast in almost every country, Dr. O'Brien is convinced that the only hope of wiping out the disease lies in mass vaccination with the vaccine called BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guérin, the French scientists who developed it from 1908 to 1924). But health officials in the U.S., O'Brien charges, have neglected using BCG "through ignorance of its efficiency and misunderstandings* regarding its harmlessness...