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Awareness of rodent cycles also helps prevent diseases among human beings. In Norway, for example, lemming invasions are accompanied by outbreaks of "lemming fever"-a form of tularemia. Vole outbreaks in India stimulate the dread bubonic plague; in Central Europe, food poisoning ("ptomaine poisoning"); in Africa, a fever of men and sheep...
...taking soldiers anywhere from a few weeks to four months after inoculation before they came down with jaundice. (Incubation period for yellow fever: three or four days.) Therefore, even after the suspect vaccine was discarded, the number of cases was expected to increase for a while, as the number of men inoculated had also increased. Soldiers could be expected to come down in July. They...
...experts finally decided that the disorder might be connected with the Army's inoculation against yellow fever. (To those who jumped to the conclusion that the disease was yellow fever itself, the doctors pointed out that yellow fever is violent, with a 10% to 85% mortality, while the mysterious ailment was relatively mild.) The doctors ordered the Army to shift to a new batch of vaccine...
...printed in this morning's Scuttle-butt, all S-O's are scheduled to take a series of shots and vaccines before they leave in late August. Each man is to be given two tetanus shots, three typhoid injections, one yellow fever shot, and a small pox vaccination...
...high: 20,000 North Carolina cows slaughtered, $523,000 paid in indemnities to their owners. But most dairymen agree that it was worth it. For human beings contract Bang's disease by drinking the milk of infected cows or goats. In human beings the disease is called undulant fever (brucellosis); it is seldom fatal but highly uncomfortable. The symptoms sometimes resemble tuberculosis', malaria's, sometimes typhoid...