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...Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are largely preventable with prompt penicillin treatment of "strep throat," but take 20,000 lives annually...
...last week, as the PHS recorded 944 new cases across the nation, hepatitis had become the third most common reportable disease in the U.S.-behind measles and strep-scarlet fever-and a full-blown menace to health. Four for One. The latest PHS figures, which cover the third week in October, bring to 31,259 the number of hepatitis cases reported in the U.S. so far this year, and the year-end total is expected to fall shy only of 1954's record 50,093. Reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total; Kentucky...
...shoulder separation in the last practice session, and Jerry Cotter, sidelined with a shoulder injury during the M.I.T. game Tuesday, are not making the trip. They will both miss the next few games. Dub Mallonee, the team's leading scorer, was in the infirmary this week with a strep throat, and may not play against Penn...
Flutterings & Squeals. Even the actors had a bad time of it last week. Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Joan Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...
...Acute nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) has puzzled doctors because, like rheumatic fever, it follows "strep" infections, but irregularly and in no detectable pattern. A team of Cleveland researchers headed by Dr. Charles Rammelkamp Jr. has found the answer: only two (types 4 and 12) out of 46 kinds of streptococci cause nephritis. And thorough penicillin treatment of the strep throat will ward off the kidney disease...