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...Walter Reed's work on yellow fever is well known. He also headed a board which investigated the cause of typhoid fever's spread among Spanish-American war troops. In that war 86.24% of the deaths were from typhoid; if the same disease rate had prevailed in World War I, half a million men would have had typhoid. Camp pollution, more than drinking water, was to blame. Camp sanitation was reformed and, more important, the Army tried out a vaccine developed in Britain (see cut, p. 75) and made vaccination compulsory. Only 1,572 World War I soldiers...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...Infectious enteritis, a not necessarily fatal intestinal disease, is characterized by fever, emaciation, diarrhea (but not always). Sanitation and isolation are the methods of control. There is no specific treatment, but feeding oats soaked with salt water sometimes gives good results...
...Skipper Collius have fun last week, laid up with a case of Navy special "cat fever." But he's back at the wheel, so all's shipshape. Hope we can say the same for Seth Gray in a week or so. He's just about got that fever "with complications" beat, and we should be seeing him soon...