(SANITIZED)EPIDEMICS AND ENDEMIC DISEASES(SANITIZED)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01028R000100060007-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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EPID tNIC AND EIIDT ~MIC DISEASES
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directed by the GSUNDHEITS MIINISTERIUM DER LANDESR.EGIERUNG , in ER`LTRT, which in turn -
is directed by the MMINISTERIUIZ FUER GESUNDHEITSWESEN in tiRLIN under Ministerpraesident
STEIDLE.
6. Immediately prior to the epidemic, there was a typhoid and para..-typhoi d ' B 4 epidemic
in NORDHAUSEN, which commenced approximately at the beginning of June. Then followed
the infantile paralysis epidemic in GERA from approximately July to the end sox' October
and in between times, there occurred papa--typhoid epidemics of moderate serenity in one
or two districts, chiefly HILDBURGfTAUSEN. This was thought to be about September. 25X1
SPECIALIST STAFF
the present time alleged to be vacant with no immediate prospects of a candidate- a
there was a critical shortage of specialist staff in
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TTIJERINGIA9 namely the one in the ROBERT KOCII Institute in MUEHLHE and MECKLEN-
BURG was in a similar position. The Chair for Bacteriology at JENA University was at
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9. It is also alleged that the shortage of medical men is becoming acute Griih onl 501) of
the yearly wastage being replaced. The flow of newly qualified made cal men. 25X1
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appearedoe little help, since only those politically reliable were said to be
loyed or those who had ,something disreputable to hide,,
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10. l4hat was achieved was entirely due to the efforts of individuals w th a sense of
responsibility for their fellow men, and who by virtue of their own moral backbone
an
f ar?lessness were able to stand u to the authorities. 411.,s an exa-ri)le
Dra. KUKOWK (author of '"DAS DEUTSCHE BAEDER BUCIP ), who had 25X1
forcibly requisitioned oranges and supplies intended for the HO -,hops for h;ic patients,
during the recent epidemic, and had per. onall fou.ht the authorities it+th c rte. let
d.isre{rard for the personal conse: uences
INFANTILE PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC
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the disease was pathogenic to miceL
done over 600 experiments using white mice. Although it is here being recorded,
these experiment ld
not have sa.ti sfi ed scientific exoer i mental Conditions in fh W wP=t
experi:. ents
ran ed from anything from one day to 1/, after "contact". The type of disease similarly
varied and included all forms - spinal, cerebro and so forth, and consequently, no single
picture was capable of being arrived at. The method of transmittal in his experiments
for white mice was varied r.nd included contagion by every known means.- blood in citrate,
coagulation serum, faeces, urine, blood in physiological saline solution and so on.
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19, Regarding foot and mouth,L
anz)r oxi.mately Sentember^ 1 Q 1
lack of serum and the rapid spread and increasing incidence of the epidemic. 25X1
la newstra1n had developed w..ich would account for the alleged
21. Alluding to rabies (there had been nothing in THUERINGIA prior
to June 1951, when it had made its appearances
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the temperature or increased the flow of milk through the processing plant,, or oossibl
normal pas e_uri%ation and processing precautions in dairies were seldom carried out
properly,, due mainly to Stakhanovite activity: they were anxious either to raise the
output of coal or increase the throughput of milk (i.e, to do which they either lowered
much infection of all sorts was spread through this dour?ce.
As already stated,, the WISMUTH workers are entirely Russian-controlled, although they
have the "cover" of German employment. In consequence, they'are not controlled by any
German authority, nor have the German police any jurisdiction over them. This of course
made any enforcement of local hygiene measures quite impossible. 25X1
local lock-up, from whence they were transferred to a prison the following day, On the
following day, their comrades arrived in strength in lorries', demanding their release,
and to enforce their demands, wrecked the police station and severely manhandled the
police who fled. A superior force of workers estimated by GEHRDM at about 2,000 then
beat in the doors of the jail with pick axes, releasing their two comrades and again
beating up the police and rioting generally. Whilst this was in. progress, the fire
brigades from three of the neighbouring towns were summoned to quell the rioters, who
thereupon threatened the fire brigades with grievous bodily harm if they did not return
immediately whence they came. This they speedily did.. It is alleged that no disicplin-
ary action of any sort was taken against any of the WISMUTH workers.
wo workers or creating a disturbance at night. They were ridged in the
MEDICAL CONDITIONS I WISMUTH A.G.
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three cases in the
MAX TTE LATER WEIIrBORN concern, who were known to employ 3,000 people,
their ovrn o tors and medical service
tt v ew polio cases among them during the epidemic Pre venr less than and the o only isolated cases
were in extremely short supply and
time for a laboratory microscope was 9-12 months
instruments 25X1
the official delivery
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aluminium was to be used and was in fact made into preserving tins. As the same
gauge of metal as that of normal preserving tins was used, it would not withstand
the pressure and heat and consequently the containers bulged
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the Youth Festival in BERLIN in 1951. Owing to the shortage of tinned plate,
sterilization process was entirely insufficient
been gross contamination.
of the aluminium containers had not .peen acquere .
none of this preserved meat reached consumers*
t e
there must have
the inside
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the Russians had an acute fear of p- id s
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