Word: epidemiologist
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...took Dr. Horace Dodge, University of Michigan epidemiologist, more than two years to figure out the reason. Most of the children, he found, got infected soon after they began to attend classes in the junior high school building, where the school bus parking lot and the playground were shaded by the trees. In the bare soil beneath the trees. Dr. Dodge found His to plasma fungi galore. Kids scuffing through the lot kicked up dust containing the fungus' spores, which, when inhaled, caused the infections. The dust and spores were also sucked in by the air intake...
...bring to 31,259 the number of hepatitis cases reported in the U.S. so far this year, and the year-end total is expected to fall shy only of 1954's record 50,093. Reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total; Kentucky Epidemiologist J. Clifford Todd estimates that there have been four victims in his state-with 1,628 cases, the nation's hardest hit-for every one reported. In Colorado's heavily Mexican-American counties along the Ar kansas River, the hepatitis rate is so high that the state...
...fact that no new case of paralytic polio has developed in Dade County since May 3 is encouraging. In previous years, even since Salk, there have been as many as half a dozen. "On the surface," says a PHS epidemiologist, "the vaccine appears safe and efficient. But vaccines are supposed to prevent polio, and we won't know whether this one has done so until the end of the season...
...more man learns about viruses, said the University of Minnesota's Epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, the more he has to learn about controlling them. And this circular motion has speeded up enormously. Up to 1947 only 60 viruses had been listed as causing disease in man, and a mere 20 of these singled out the human species as their prime prey. The rest, like the one that causes eastern equine encephalitis (TIME, Oct. 5), normally attack lower animals, infect man accidentally, said Dr. Schuman...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...