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Geographically Interesting. The link between these two seemingly unrelated diseases is suggested in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. In equatorial Africa, he points out, at least 40% of all childhood cancers are lymphatic, but they rarely take the form of leukemia and are almost invariably solid tumors. They are usually seen first in the jawbones (though they also attack other bones and internal organs) of children aged three to eight...
...their superficial differences, Dr. Dalldorf notes, the diseases have two important factors in common. The tumor cells are of the same type, and both diseases can be slowed down, or arrested for a year or two, by the same radiation and drug treatment. (Sloan-Kettering medical teams have gone to Kenya and treated many patients there.) So, suggests Dr. Dalldorf, the lymphatic cancers of children, in Africa and elsewhere, may be two sides of the same coin...
Pandora's Box. Then the isolation of Coxsackie virus by New York's Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf (TIME, Oct. 19) in 1947 opened a Pandora's box of viruses. By now, 76 new types of viruses that prey on man have been described-more than all the viruses of any kind recognized before...
Last week Iowa-born Gilbert Dalldorf, 59, won one of the 1959 Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory statuette) for following the White Plains footprints to Coxsackie and beyond, and also for showing that one viral infection may interfere with the development of another. (This may explain why, though Coxsackie and polio often coincide, one usually predominates and few if any patients seem to get both diseases...
Meanwhile, Dr. Dalldorf explained at the awards luncheon in Manhattan, the Coxsackie criminal has been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with...