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...northwest suburbs of sticky, sprawling Rangoon creaked open and 68 men & women filed out. They straggled the short distance to Kyandaw Cemetery, the city's common burial ground for Burmese Buddhists, camped there. They had not come to die; they were lepers who had caught the strike fever. Their bargaining power rested on the notion which Burmese share with other Asiatics that leprosy is a highly contagious disease...
Schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny blood fluke which burrows under the skin of river bathers, causes fever, hives, bladder infection, sometimes cirrhosis of the liver. The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes. A single snail may produce 32,000 flukes...
...Frederick Kister, or Gerald L. K. Smith, or William Dudley Pelley harangning a crowd of 52-20's in a shabby meeting house on the edge of a large Eastern city. It is a rally of "We, the Mothers," anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-"furriner" feeling whipped to a fever pitch. Or it is a gathering of Ku Kluxers, mapping strategy for the killing of three Negroes...
...youth is bent by the same wintry fever...
...some of the immigrants to Cambridge today, a lost weekend may be looming, but not for the local purveyors of bottled in bond who one and all anticipate the usual empty shelves and filled cash tills associated with football fever...