Word: diphtheria
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...offered the immunization clinic in an attempt to eradicate the immunization backlog on campus. The clinic offered measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria shots...
Seurat, like Masaccio or Mozart, was a true prodigy. Born in 1859, he succumbed to an attack of galloping diphtheria in 1891, at 31. This all too early death has had the effect of concentrating his life around a single stylistic effort, the invention of pointillism. The one thing everyone knows about Seurat is that he painted rather stiff pictures composed of dots, in the belief that this system of breaking down color into its constituent parts was scientific and not, like Monet's Impressionism, intuitive...
...disease they are designed to ward off. (Reason: the "killed" viruses sometimes survive, while the weakened versions often fail to cause an immune response.) In general, however, the vaccines have been quite effective; in recent years the National Academy of Sciences has reported only a handful of polio and diphtheria cases and only a few deaths caused by whooping cough and rubella. Maurice Hillemen, director of Pennsylvania's Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, characterizes the early vaccine era as the "stumbling-along period...
...those who are not discouraged by all this, there are other caveats. The wait for a visa to visit Viet Nam can be exasperatingly long, and doctors recommend an arm-numbing array of shots against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and diphtheria, as well as the weekly malaria pill while in-country. A few other words of advice are in order. Leave your preconceptions at home; pack instead medical supplies for most intestinal contingencies (don't drink the water, peel all the fruit) and a healthy tolerance for inconvenience (no toilet paper or light bulbs). Credit cards and traveler's checks...
...with North Korea in the early 1950s, used grants and loans to become a healthy industrial power. Taiwan also built a strong economy with help from its friends. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has promoted health and nutrition programs and immunized millions of children against measles, diphtheria, typhoid and other diseases. "Overall, the record is very good," says John Sewell, president of the Overseas Development Council, a Washington- based research organization. "Aid has worked. When one looks at the Third World, the rate of progress has been remarkable...