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...disease detective in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf was called in on many a late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White Plains, Dr. Dalldorf saw what he calls "the footprints of other viruses," but it took him five years to track down the particles. From patients with similar illnesses in the Hudson River town of Coxsackie (pop. 2,800), Dr. Dalldorf isolated a hitherto unknown virus. The Coxsackie virus thus put the town...
...York doctors were pretty sure last week that grey house mice can carry infantile paralysis, and said so, pretty clearly-for doctors. Clause Jungeblut and Gilbert Dalldorf reported in the American Journal of Public Health that they had found similar viruses (tentatively identified as Theiler's strain of the poliomyelitis group) in the brains of a man who died of infantile paralysis and a mouse found dead in his cellar. This was the first time such a virus has ever been found in a common house mouse...
...Jungeblut and Dr. Dalldorf hoped their "preliminary observations" would at least stir many a mouse-tolerant householder to action...
Uruguay had the worst scare, and, like Mexico, went after big fish (see p. 34). A Congressional investigating committee gathered evidence on which it planned to dissolve German organizations and start criminal proceedings against "Fiührer" Julius Dalldorf and other leaders. Before this could be done, German Minister Otto Langmann announced that the Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt...
...scientists now understand immunity to disease, 1) the blood develops substances which destroy certain germs and viruses that invade the body, or 2) body tissues develop resistance to agents of disease. Neither explanation covers the temporary immunity to infantile paralysis which distemper confers on monkeys. Dr. Dalldorf reasoned that "both viruses require, for their propagation, a common cell protein or other substance which the conjugation of the first virus exhausts and thereby prevents the multiplication of [the] other virus." If he and his associates are correct, they believe that they have discovered "a new immunity mechanism in the virus field...