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Many a mother still believes that measles is one of those unavoidable childhood illnesses and amounts to nothing more than a seven-day siege of spots and fever with no lasting ill effects, but doctors know better. Every year, thousands or tens of thousands of children develop pneumonia from measles, and many of them die. Even worse is the fate of many of the 4,000 or so each year who develop encephalitis and do not die but are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in homes for the mentally retarded. Between its killing and crippling effects, measles...
...Cover, Nov. 17, 1961), but new research has added many advantages. When the attenuated virus in Enders' vaccine remained strong enough to give the required immunity, it was also strong enough to give many children what amounted to a slight case of measles, with a mild rash and some fever. A later vaccine made with killed virus took two or three injections to build immunity of uncertain length. Doctors' preferences varied between giving a shot of the live vaccine with a shot of gamma globulin to reduce side effects, or giving one or more shots of killed vaccine, then...
Never Twice. The Pitman-Moore vaccine offers a way out of the dilemma. After nurturing scores of "generations" of Enders' bug, Dr. Anton J. F. Schwarz now grows the final product in cultures of cells from virus-free eggs. When injected into a child, it causes no rash or fever; the Public Health Service's hypercritical Division of Biologies Standards is satisfied that the vaccine contains no contaminating viruses. New York University's Dr. Saul Krugman reports that 2� years of testing indicate that one injection confers just as solid immunity as the natural disease. "That means it should...
...room still contained most of Student 2's belongings," says Dr. W. K. George in College Health, "and it is probable that the bed linens had not been changed." The researchers are not convinced that Hodgkin's?a baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude?can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers...
...then sat around in a cold room. Volunteers had to use paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, and keep count of each tissue. Some of Sir Christopher's findings: > Determining whether a person even has a cold is no easy matter. Some people naturally have runnier noses than others. (Fever or severe sore throat would indicate another respiratory infection-not a common cold.) As good an index as any proved to be the number of tissues used: five to ten a day for someone with a mild cold. The record...