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...more important. Burch had been puzzled because many patients with damaged valves had no history of rheumatic fever. He knew that many viruses may attack the heart, and that some of them cause infections that seem relatively mild at the time. The cardiologist chose a virus called Coxsackie B4 for his tests and injected it into thousands of mice. Virtually all suffered heart injury and damage to the pancreas, and some had injury to the kidneys. To test his thesis in humans, Burch took blood from autopsy subjects who had damaged heart valves but no history of rheumatic fever...
...other targets was always complicated by the expertness with which ODESSA-the Nazi escape apparatus set up and financed by the SS-slipped fugitives out of Europe after the war. One who did not go far was Erich Rajakowitsch, who in 1942 headed Eichmann's Section IV B4 ("death transports") in Holland: Wiesenthal finally found "Raja" in Italy, where he was heading a firm that traded profitably in oil pipelines and engines with the East bloc. Sentenced in Vienna to 2½ years, Raja was quietly released six months later...
...B4. One of the negative factors in the U.S. economic picture for 1959 was the fact that the U.S. balance of trade showed a deficit of: a) $4 billion. c) $10 million...
Better Off B4. In London, a chap wrote to the Ministry of Health about his hearing aid, was told in reply that any future questions should refer to "IV( V) ( 1)/RHB5/19/2C/219.SR...
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