Word: bunyamwera
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...Bunyamwera Trial. To Uganda's Professor Jack N. P. Davies, this suggested that the children's cancers might be caused, or at least triggered, by a mosquito-borne virus. Now British investigators in jungle-edge laboratories are performing delicate experiments to isolate such a virus from the cancers. But the region is a rich source of competing and often confusing viruses. Ironically, one of these, named Bunyamwera (after a Uganda district), has been tried experimentally as a treatment for cancer. It was a cluster of leukemia cases among children in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill. (TIME, June...
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