Word: counterattacks
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...epidemics. The total number of tuberculosis cases reported last year was 26,283, up from a low of 22,000 in 1984, but still well below the 84,000 recorded in 1953. However, scientists are worried about the future. "We forgot that microbes are restless and that they would counterattack," says Richard Krause, a senior scientific adviser to the National Institutes of Health. "That was incredible hubris on our part...
...AIDS was no exception. Soon after researchers announced in the mid-1980s that they had discovered the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health officials confidently crowed that a vaccine would be ready in two years. The most frightening scourge of the late 20th century would succumb to a swift counterattack of human ingenuity and high technology...
...Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington and his colleagues are trying to develop a vaccine that helps people who are already infected. By injecting a slightly modified form of the virus' protein coat, the Army researchers hope to kick-start the patients' immune systems into mounting an effective counterattack. Redfield thinks that his version of the viral coat may share enough characteristics with all the known mutant strains of HIV to overcome the variability problem. Said Redfield, a rare, unabashed optimist at the Amsterdam meeting: "I believe HIV is very simple, very straightforward, and it's going...
...beaten down," says a friend. "Quiet and not as assertive as she normally was." She had already been burned by some of the reaction to her campaign against obscene rock lyrics. While she always insisted that government censorship was never her goal, she found herself the target of a counterattack led by the A.C.L.U. Frank Zappa called her a "cultural terrorist." Hollywood liberals -- who were also big Democratic contributors -- piled on, which led her husband's advisers to encourage him to distance himself from his wife's effort...
...June. Bush, who has been forced to play catch-up on foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know pollution. He's got it. He's caused...