Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government doctor in the little village of Al Korein, north of Cairo, reported some patients with vomiting, cramps and diarrhea. Four days later, ancient, crowded Egypt knew that it had an outbreak of Asiatic choler, the first since 1902, when cholera swept all Egypt, killing 34,595 people (mortality: 85%). Eventually the 1902 outbreak reached Europe and America...
This character of the sons of Virginia, which Professor Coolidge cited at the installation of Edwin A. Alderman, has been molded by battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
...Infantile paralysis is often confused with other nervous-system disorders (e.g., various forms of meningitis). Researchers now suspect that a 1934 "polio" epidemic of 2,055 cases in Los Angeles was incorrectly diagnosed, and a supposed polio outbreak in Delaware this summer, which had almost no crippling effects, may not have been polio...
...worst infantile paralysis outbreak in British Isles history, as severe as the U.S. epidemics of 1916 and 1946, is sweeping England, Wales and Scotland, has already claimed more than 2,200 victims...
Custer's wife was then at Fort Riley. When Custer, leading an Indian-hunting expedition in the field, heard of the cholera outbreak, he promptly rode off from his cavalry regiment and hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis...