Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condition need not be fatal, Drs. Paul L. Wolf and Murray B. Levin suggest. A few months later they suspected beriberi in a man of 54, and added massive doses of B1 to the battery of drugs they gave him. His heart was saved. Shoshin beriberi, they conclude, deserves more attention...
...First there were U.S. WACs, then a demoktirasi-style Japanese girl with knapsack and climbing boots. The beleaguered priests enlisted villagers to turn back any woman they found approaching the mountain. They rebuilt the trail to the top, making it difficult even for experienced climbers. But then came the fatal proclamation of the miko in Nara prefecture...
...monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...
Ever since Pasteur made his epochal discovery that inactive virus could give protection against rabies, thousands of bite victims each year have started the course of 14 shots. Many have quit because of severe and painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because they contained material from rabbit brains. Last week researchers in New York City's Department of Health reported that a modified vaccine made by growing the virus in fertilized duck eggs gives quicker protection, is safer and causes few unpleasant reactions...
...come equipped with megaphones. No one talks; everyone blasts out endless editorials-on the evils of TV. Republicans, Democrats, the American Dream-not excluding Ridge's raven-haired exwife, at whom Ridge makes embarrassing /fl«-passes throughout the novel. Ridge puts the finger on Trumpet's fatal lack-"It had nothing left to say"-but scarcely lifts an editorial finger to remedy the situation...