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...Kansas City. Says a state engineer: "We have just about exhausted all the water-purification methods known at this time." A brief typhoid outbreak last year in Keene, N.H.-traced to contaminated water-killed one person, struck down 18 others. Incidence of infectious hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal viral disease of the liver, which can be transmitted by polluted water, is up 71% over 1959. Says the U.S. Public Health Service: "The problem of keeping enough water clean enough to protect the public health has become enormously complex, difficult and urgent...
...turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample of fluid from the knee for laboratory analysis, discovered the presence of the "staph," a ubiquitous microbe that can cause a varied assortment of minor and major ills-from boils to pneumonia to fatal blood poisoning...
...similar to atherosclerosis in the adult. Circulation, the doctors believe, had been interrupted by the difficult delivery that followed premature descent, and probably squeezing of the umbilical cord. Blood clots formed, as in the adult's coronary thrombosis. As far as they can judge, the baby had his fatal heart attack when only one hour...
...many a company such sweeping write-offs would be fatal, would send the stock skittering down. But Bob Gross guessed that he could get away with it, timed the announcement to follow the successful launching from a submarine of the Lockheed-manufactured Polaris missile...
...researchers note in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...