Speakers for the Sixth NASA Seminar Series: “Emerging ...

See Dower, supra, at 47 48. Starvation, malnutrition and disease ravaged the general populace. "Between 1945 and 1948, over 650,000 people were reported to have contracted cholera, dysentery, paratyphoid, smallpox, epidemic typhus (spotted fever), scarlet fever, diphtheria, epidemic meningitis, polio, and encephalitis. ................
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