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Last month in the French L'Illustration three French Army doctors declared that in case of war, germs could be introduced into enemy territory by loosing infected rats, fleas and lice. Having chosen the harmful war germ, the army employing it would immunize its own men in advance...
...typical polio-encephalitis victim had blinding, excruciating headaches, accompanied by nausea and vomiting so severe that artificial feeding was sometimes necessary. About ten patients suffered bladder paralysis, necessitating the constant and painful use of catheters. Two developed arthritis. Many women had sharp abdominal pains, due to attacks by the germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
Revelation No. 2: Much more pretentiously Klim announced that the Soviet Union is today prepared to wage not only gas warfare but also germ warfare "upon the soil" of any nation which uses such weapons against Russia first...
...serpentine germ, Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, causes the disease, affects the spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...
...mysterious bacteria-destroying substance which has had a stormy medical history in the 22 years since it first came to light. Bacteriophage-"phage" for short-was discovered during the War by a British medical officer named Frederick William Twort, who was preparing vaccines. When he stained one of his germ colonies he found nothing but the wreckage of dead bacteria. Whatever it was that killed them was able to pass in solution through a fine filter and then infect other colonies. Felix d'Herelle, a Canadian studying at France's Pasteur Institute, found that another kind of phage...