Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such was the scene at Sotheby's and Christie's during the past two weeks as the speculative fever of Wall Street moved uptown and into the high-rent district. At Manhattan's two premiere bidding houses, the art market set almost hourly records, culminating last week in sales of some $120 million, the most lucrative week in auction history...
There had been early warnings, a few cases reported around the country. But then 44 U.S. Navymen in Key West, Fla., began complaining of sore throats, fever and chills. Last week, after taking throat cultures from the men, doctors confirmed the bad news: Taiwan flu has arrived and begun to take its toll...
...liquids failed to reveal the "filterable agents" that caused the diseases. Also, unlike bacteria, these agents could apparently not be grown in culture dishes, where scientists hoped they might form colonies large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The source of such diseases as mumps, smallpox, yellow fever, rabies and dengue remained a mystery. And yet, wrote frustrated Bacteriologist William Henry Welch in 1894, "these are the most typically contagious diseases, which it might have been supposed would be the first to unlock their secrets...
Although acute infections like influenza kill thousands each year, most people defeat their tiny attackers. Still, they may suffer while the battle is being waged. Indeed, many of the typical symptoms of infection -- fever, chills, itchy rashes, localized swelling -- are due less to the virus than to the vigorous activity of the immune system. However, once the body has created a population of antibody-producing B cells designed to combat a specific virus, immunity to that virus often lasts for decades, or even a lifetime. Then why does the common cold return again and again? One reason, scientists explain...
Still, despite the viruses' apparent potential for good, their much greater capacity for evil has been amply demonstrated. Smallpox. Yellow fever. Rabies. Polio. And now the cruel AIDS epidemic. Concludes David Baltimore: "You could get rid of all the viruses from the world and the world would not be the worse...