Holokauston News Paper

Health and Medicine:



Diseases Affecting the World:

Polio is becoming an annual epidemic during this time period of the 1940’s. Polio is experienced with these following symptoms: paralysis, pain, weakness, in coordination, deformity, and fatigue.

Polio is caused by a virus which often results in an acute infection. This infection is usually associated by young children getting infected by this virus-borne disease. Parents are becoming scared every time one of their children has complaints of sore throat, or being over heated (a fever) they fear that is associated with the polio disease.
When polio invades the nervous system, over about twenty five percent of the patients suffer of mild cases, and about seventy five percent of the patients have a very serious case, such as paralysis in the arms, and legs. But when paralysis reaches the muscles of the suffering patients throats death is a major possibility.

In conclusion, sense polio affects more children they were also the most applicable to spread it to others.



Atomic Bomb—Soviet Union (SU):

At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, the secret and or code name is "First Lightning." In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. They also placed animals in cages nearby so that they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human-like mammals. The atomic explosion, which at 20 kilotons was roughly similar to "Trinity," the first U.S. atomic explosion, destroyed those structures and burned the ashes of the animals. Meaning that the animal’s ashes were burned, and the buildings and other structures built by scientists to test the bomb were also destroyed. The long term effect of this bomb, and or the rough side of this new invention is that once used you can’t take it back. Many others will start making these bombs and wrecking everything within miles of the bomb’s explosion.



Diseases Affecting the World:

Soilders in the war are facing pnuemonia, caused by being exposed to elements that attack their respitory systems. Many other diseases are being faced on the "field" because of contaminated water and not being able clean their bodies, this can end up causing disentery.
In many countries currently, their are being shots created to cure these following diseases, Tetanus* SmallPox* Diphtheria* and Pertussis*. These shots are expected to be in the bodies of many by the late 1940's.