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...Smallpox was the first disease shown to be preventable by vaccination, but doctors are still searching for an effective way of treating it when it does erupt-usually among the unvaccinated. A team of Bangladesh and Canadian physicians believe that they have now found a way. They report in Lancet that cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), a drug known to check the multiplication of several viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries...
...house. The police picked him up, let him out the next day, and he went back and repaired the house." Eventually, each group took to solving most of its own difficulties. They held family councils and adopted a policy of talking things out with each other before crises could erupt...
Because flu tends to erupt at ten-year intervals, doctors have been searching for a defense against the major epidemic expected to occur toward the end of the decade. Now they appear on the verge of success. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health's Allergy and Infectious Diseases branch last week announced a new vaccine that may make it possible to control the disease effectively for the first time...
Meantime, Pomerance has had his men boning up at Florida International University, studying the philosophy of protest as part of their special training. How many demonstrators will appear remains uncertain, but if violence should erupt, there has been talk that the police have the final tactical advantage of being able simply to block off the island's five causeways...
...many diseases that are apt to erupt in recruit camps when thousands of young men from diverse backgrounds are thrown together, one of the deadliest is Type C virulent meningitis. The fatality rate is high, and death may occur within a few hours after appearance of the first symptoms. Even victims who recover may suffer permanent deafness or brain damage. Now, reported Lieut. Colonel Phillip E. Winter, the Army has a highly effective vaccine, which was developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In the 1970-71 respiratory-disease season, when the vaccine was used only after epidemics...