Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever. For several days his temperature was high, 103 degrees and above. But it was certain to go down to normal. As certainly, after a period of ease, it will go high again. Such is the characteristic of the disease, and hence its variant name, undulant fever. It is endemic along the Mediterranean coasts, particularly on the Island of Malta. In the U. S. Texas is the pest area. Those regions raise goats and goats are the carriers of the disease...
With the hunting season beginning, doctors are trying to warn rabbit catchers against tularemia, rabbit fever. Lousy rabbits usually have the disease. Men catch it from handling infected animals, skinning them or eating them poorly cooked...
...Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...Venizelos has completely recovered from his slight attack of dengue fever which recently epidemicked in Greece (TIME, Sept...
Political developments in Greece are temporarily nil, owing to the dengue fever as reported in TIME, Sept...