Word: fever
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...town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit from a rough, rich Texas cattleman, who sounded as though he might fit Lost Cabin...
...captured by the Japs in Mindanao. Then began a long campaign to make him a puppet ruler. Roxas, determined to carry on guerrilla activities, warded off the first Jap blandishments by feigning illness (he had lost 48 Ibs.). When Japs came to call at his Manila home, he took fever shots, bounded up & down steps to make himself pant and sweat. Finally, Premier Tojo sent his personal physician to treat Manuel Roxas; eventually Roxas found his name on a Jap-appointed commission to draft a Philippine constitution...
...matter of seconds burrows through the skin and infects the individual. All water found to contain these flukes is posted and personnel is warned not to bathe, wade or wash in it. The flukes, which usually attack the intestines and liver, are rarely lethal. They may cause a fever at first, followed by steady, prolonged discomfort and ill health. One bad schistosomiasis area is Okinawa...
Dengue (breakbone) fever is rarely fatal but makes its victim miserable with aches & pains for a week or so. There was an epidemic of it in Hawaii two years ago. As it is spread by mosquitoes, it too can be controlled by D.D.T...
...seed of epidemics has multiplied and spread during the war. In twelve continental European countries, incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever has more than doubled since war began. But as the world had less disease in 1939 than in 1914, infection is still low compared with...