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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1943
Page
4
Austin March 18 Dr Sonny Cox reports unusually high dysentery incidence in Texas. He describes dysentery as a germ driven disease causing abdominal pain diarrhea and toxemia with blood and mucus in stools. Children are most at risk and summer displays higher cases.
The article notes that some patients continue to discharge germs after recovery, calling them carriers. It emphasizes that carriers occur more frequently in dysentery than in many other infectious diseases and warns that food protection and sanitary measures are urgently needed to control potential epidemics in the state.
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