Word: strep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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...