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Year after year they had vanished into Japan like wanderers sucked into the mud of a fever swamp-the men of Hong Kong, of Bataan and Wake, men of the ships sunk at sea, the planes shot down in combat. Last week they were found-those who were still alive...
...July, dysentery spread through Berlin. The disease was carried by flies that swarmed in the wreckage, and struck an undernourished people: 705 died of it. In August came typhoid fever, which also flourishes on flies and filth. In the week of Aug. 18 there were 538 typhoid cases (up from 43 in July) and 50 deaths. (So far, no U.S. soldier has caught typhoid.) Last week the U.S. Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that...
...Laboratory Assistant Rose Parrott, the Institute's first woman worker, died of tularemia (rabbit fever) last autumn, ten days after she was to have been retired after 30 years' service. She had not even entered the room where tularemia work was done. (Most tularemia workers get it sooner or later...
...Laboratory Worker Harry Anderson died in 1930 of psittacosis (parrot fever...
...term hour exam grades went into the Dean's Office yesterday and some people are due for a shock when they find that spring fever has crept into summer...