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Nurse Pinneo was treated first for malaria, but within 24 hours of admission her temperature had soared to 107°. To get that fiery fever down, the doctors put her in an oxygen tent and packed her in ice. Her sister, Rose Pinneo, a nursing instructor at the University of Rochester, flew down to care for her. Lily Pinneo was dehydrated and had to have her fluid balance restored. Then her chest cavity filled with fluid and had to be punctured and drained. She developed pneumonia. Even after her throat ulcers had cleared, she could swallow only a few sips...
...three nurses' blood serums. Using extreme precautions and working with two other expert virologists, he cultured a virus from the serums and injected it into mice. The adult mice died. Then in June, Casals fell ill. His first symptoms did not suggest what Frame had now christened Lassa fever. But at Presbyterian Hospital this diagnosis was confirmed. What to do? No known treatment was effective, but Patient Casals was more fortunate than his predecessors. Nurse Pinneo was convalescing, and there should still be antibodies in her blood. She flew to New York and gave two pints of blood...
...less fortunate. He had not worked directly with the Lassa serums or infected mice, so when he visited relatives in York, Pa., over Thanksgiving and fell ill, no one suspected the mystery virus. Roman died. Later, when his serum revealed that he had somehow been infected with the dread fever...
...sure whether Lassa virus belongs to Casals' favorite group of arboviruses. It is related, he suggests, to a virus that causes a devastating Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (TIME, July 19, 1963). Whatever its nature, it may be widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, but relatively unknown to authorities because natives die of it in the bush without seeking medical...
...transmitted? No one knows, but Frame's serum collection offered a clue. It contained a Lassa-positive specimen from Carrie Moore, who had a similar illness in Guinea, 1,500 miles west of Lassa, when she worked there as a teacher in 1965. Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf. Her quarters, she recalls, were infested with mice that left their droppings all over her room and the kitchen. Nurse Pinneo also remembers mice droppings in the mission hospital at Jos. If mice are indeed carriers of the disease, the virus may well be wafted into...