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...sweated out a tropical assignment, there was a certain irony in the news: the Army had at last found a vaccine to combat dengue* fever, which had plagued 84,000 troops during the war years with rashes, headaches, fever and racking joint pains. Although nonfatal, the mosquito-borne disease lasted anywhere from two to 15 days; worst of all, there was no specific treatment...
...narration of the film is sharp, simple and unsentimental. Some of the unposed shots are as moving as any the war has produced: a sobbing woman, a bony child trembling with malnutrition and fever, old people living on a diet of garbage and misery. The film adds up to 19 very disturbing, very uncomfortable minutes...
...poverty, the hatred of carpetbaggers, the nostalgia for better days which shaped life in the South after the Civil War. His father, who had fought as a Confederate cavalry officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...
...scientific writer asserts that Goodpasture's development of viruses in chick embryo-which opened the way for large-scale production of vaccines against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
Diseases now being treated with the drug include: typhoid, food poisoning, undulant fever and rabbit fever; certain infections of the genitourinary tract; some types of blood poisoning, meningitis, pneumonia and bacterial endocarditis. Limited research is being conducted in tuberculosis...