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People who have inherited hay fever or asthma, who have taken pneumonia serum, or who have suffered previously from the old tetanus anti-toxin, may become gravely ill if given a fresh dose, and anyone who has had the treatment less than five years ago is also liable to a reaction...
That was not all there was in Eritrea to make Italian eyes widen. When it was decided last year to set up bases there for Lend-Lease material, U.S. laborers, recruited in New York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...
...Rheumatoid arthritis, which usually affects people between the ages of 20 and 40. The cause is still unknown. Some of its symptoms (e.g., slight fever) suggest it may be infectious though no microorganism has so far been incriminated. Another possible cause: metabolic disorders...
...Come? The doctors went to work meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be kept in frozen storage, must not rise above 37° F. before use. There are three possible causes for the trouble: 1) the Army slipped up on vaccine handling; 2) the toned-down virus sometimes made people sick; 3) this particular batch had been contaminated by another germ...
...first proudly let it be known that there were no Navy cases, later admitted that a few inoculated men did-er-turn yellow. There have also been reports of a similar disease among the Russians on the Eastern Front, and the Russian Army does not inoculate for yellow fever...