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Medicine: Epidemics
Last week, the Epidemiological Report of the League of Nations Secretariat announced the progress of contagious diseases during the past year. Epidemics this...
Medicine: Postwar Epidemics
Typhoid in Germany, reported UNRRA, was at 30 times its normal level in September. Syphilis had a "three-to-nine-fold increase in most countries and a...
Medicine: Epidemics by Air
A traveler exposed to cholera in Naples can land in New York the next day without realizing that he has picked up the disease. A homeward-bound Denverite may...
Epidemics: Fever in Hanoi
The disease strikes abruptly but insidiously, and many treat it as if it were flu. After three days of fever, headache and vomiting, victims often deteriorate...
CEASE-FIRE: Epidemics & Patience
For weeks the Communists have been accusing the U.N. of waging bacteriological warfare in North Korea, thus trying to explain away disease epidemics spreading...
Of Mosquitoes, Dead Birds and Epidemics
Tracey McNamara had never seen anything like it. In July, dead crows began turning up by the dozens at New York City's Bronx Zoo. By August, McNamara, the zoo's...
Epidemics: Approaching a Disaster
In Washington, President Lyndon B. was bedded down with it or something suspiciously resembling it. In Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley was just recovering...
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Top 10 Terrible Epidemics
Cholera has broken out in the persistent rubble from Haiti's January earthquake, killing around 300 and infecting at least 3,300. With officials saying the...
