Word: toxoid
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Volunteers from varsity and House football teams, crew and track squads, and the Army R.O.T.C. unit will serve as "guinea pigs" in tests of tetanus toxoid serum...
...about 600 doctors, 600 nurses, 60 sanitary engineers, 40 dentists. But it had plenty of miracle workers like DDT and penicillin. To trouble spots, UNRRA shipped: 7.5 million pounds of DDT powder, 809,550 million units of penicillin, one million pounds of sulfa drugs, six million cc of diphtheria toxoid, 5,167 million units of antitoxin. By 1946's end, UNRRA reported, typhoid, which had caused Europe's most serious postwar epidemic, was under control, diphtheria had been greatly reduced, typhus was rare, smallpox and plague had virtually been wiped...
...health officials disagree with the current British theory: that more dangerous new strains of diphtheria bacilli have developed, in the U.S., the standard treatments-immunization with toxoid injections, therapy with antitoxin-are still effective...
...camps, CWS prepared a toxoid against botulism, a form of food poisoning which it was feared the Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...
...immediate reaction of oldtime lepers and their doctors to any new drug is disbelief. They have seen all sorts of medicines-gold solution, diphtheria toxoid, etc.-touted and then dropped. Even chaulmoogra oil, which seemed to do some good, although it was often painful or made patients sick, has fallen into disfavor (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Recently the regime of a tuberculosis sanitarium-rest, good food, good care-has become the only standard treatment. By this regime alone, some 10% to 20% of leprosy cases are eventually arrested. "Cured" is a word leprologists have never dared...