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...fever did not get the best of him, big, easy-going Dave ("Boo") Ferriss of the pennant-bound Boston Red Sox had a strong chance in his second year in the majors. Last week Ferriss showed no signs of sniffles as he polished off his 20 and 21st victories...
...known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient's excreta into a laboratory animal. Some pertinent polio facts...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...
Such antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
...school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...