Word: fever
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...Amsterdam, stockbrokers caught the fever, refused to do any more trading unless Finance Minister Pieter Lieftinck lifted his ban on trading in U.S. securities...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned...
...Bubonic plague. 3. Rheumatic fever. 5. Typhoid...
...Polio. 4. Scarlet fever...
...species were studied: Aëdes aegypti (which carries yellow fever) and Anopheles quadrimaculatus (malaria). Aëdes males responded best to a mating call of 350-750 vibrations per second; Anopheles preferred a lower range (320-480). In spite of overlapping of ranges, no male made passes at a female of the wrong species. The Army's conclusion: a female mosquito must have other attractions than...