Word: fever
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Mary Cerra hurried to the hospital where Joseph, the son she had never seen, was laid up with rheumatic fever. All she could say was: "He's handsome-just handsome...
...complains of a headache every Monday morning, it may just be hangover. If he gets fever or a bellyache every Wednesday, or at some other regular interval, he may be suffering from "periodic disease," an ailment which has doctors thoroughly baffled...
Professor Hobart A. Reimann of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College coined the name to cover a group of mysterious ailments which have been cropping up in medical records for almost 150 years. .Victims may get fever (up to 104°), abdominal pains, swollen joints, purple spots and patches, swelling or hives. More men than women are afflicted...
Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau had to admit that the experts still do not know how to stamp out jungle yellow fever, though they are learning more & more about it. It is the same disease that Gorgas fought: only the carrier mosquito is different. The only way to check it is by vaccination. Any farmer, woodcutter or orchid hunter going to town for a weekend with the virus in his blood may start an epidemic among people who have not been inoculated...
This year Brazil alone has had more than 4,000 cases of yellow fever, 500 deaths. Across the Andes in Ecuador, supposedly free of the disease since 1929, there have been 60 cases, 25 deaths. Even Panama's record has been spoiled: seven deaths in about two years...