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Rosalind Ragans can still remember the contagion ward in a New York City hospital where she spent three months as a victim of the 1944 polio epidemic. Of the nearly 600,000 Americans who were infected by the poliomyelitis virus in this century before the development of vaccines for the disease in the 1950s, about 10% died, while many of the survivors, like Ragans, suffered some degree of paralysis. Stricken at age eleven, she was at first confined to a wheelchair, but gradually recovered enough to lead a normal life. Her slight difficulty in walking and partly paralyzed right...
Have Reagan's foreign policies actually made the world "a little safer," as he suggested last week? The American voters' answer to that question may be crucial in next fall's presidential election. Reagan's political advisers worry about a contagion of war fears. "We think the talk is getting carried away," says one White House aide. Reagan's soothing, rather lighthearted press-conference manner was meant to calm those national jitters...
Moscow knew that if the reforms in Poland survived, a contagion of democracy could sweep through the satellites and finally threaten the Soviet Union itself. The Soviet leaders could not permit this to happen. In the Polish crisis, we were not seeing the collapse of the Soviet empire. Moscow's difficulties with the Poles were a sign of trouble and decay, but the situation was not irreversible. Solidarity could be snuffed out. There was never any question that the popular movement in Poland would be crushed by the U.S.S.R. The only questions were: When would this happen, and with...
Doctors agree that the best hope for preventing infection of newborns lies in more careful monitoring of pregnant women with a history of herpes. If active genital infection is detected before labor, a caesarean will generally protect the infant from contagion. For women who know they have been exposed to herpes but have no visible symptoms, a new 24-hour test for herpes should improve detection...
...citizen turned around from looking at my picture and said, "I did not realize you were Jewish." "I am not," I said, "but Our Blessed Lord is-I hope I've caught a little of the contagion...