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P: Army doctors from Walter Reed Hospital have discovered a method for preventing Q fever, a pneumonialike disease spread by inhalation of dust contaminated by diseased animals. Oral Terramycin, given late in the 17-day incubation period after exposure, proved 100% successful in preventing disease symptoms.

P:Unhappiness may be the principal cause of death in modern society, says Dr. Kenneth Appel, president of the National Commission on Mental Illness and Health. Appel attributes the big increase in coronaries, strokes, ulcers and high blood pressure partly to increased tension: "In the long run, satisfaction is as important as nutrition in the preservation of health. Frustration of basic needs produces tension. If tensions are overwhelming, they produce catastrophic illness."

P:Barns and silos can be unhealthy places for farmers. Reports presented to the Wisconsin Trudeau Society indicate two diseases--"farmer's lung" and "silo filler's disease"--can have a crippling effect on farm workers. Farmer's lung is a reaction to grain dust, producing chills, nausea and shortness of breath. It has forced a number of Wisconsin farmers to give up farming. Silo filler's disease is potentially more dangerous. Caused by exposure to nitrogen dioxide from fresh silage, the ailment has killed several farm hands in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area.

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