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Reason: an epidemic of dengue fever...
...sudden outbreak took only six days to develop epidemic fury, jumped from seven to 39 cases. A quick-striking, infectious virus disease, dengue (pro nounced denggy) is almost never fatal, but for a week or ten days it lays out its victims, causing high fever, rashes and painful swellings, severe pains in head, eyes, muscles, joints. Mosquitoes carry...
Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment...
...building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously drilling holes in the hard limestone cliffs in which crude gunpowder could be packed for blasting. There was no dynamite. . . . And they smoothed the road with their hands! Little loving pats...
...personally got along all right until the trucks and jeeps had to be abandoned and the walking began. Then, besides his severe malaria, he developed four excruciating sores on his feet. On May 14 General Stilwell caught him resting in a blanket. "What's the matter, Seagrave, got fever?" "No, sir, I got wet and felt a little cold so was warming up." "How are your feet?" "Better, sir." "You are lying...