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...attention were the bacteria, hulking big microbes (by comparison with viruses) that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Peyton Rous in 1910 proved that a filterable virus is the cause of sarcoma (a kind of cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite patience, Theiler in 1936 grew 176 generations of virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells,* weakening the virus with each "pass" and seeking a generation that would be too feeble to induce the disease, yet strong enough in a vaccine...
...paused outside Vyas' house to shout insults; elsewhere, village poets hymned the maharani. She is grimly determined to win, but at the moment her major campaign concern is the garlands and flower petals constantly tossed at her by enthusiastic supporters. Explains she: "I've got terrible hay fever...
...Health, went to work. They separated PAP patients from recruits suffering from other respiratory diseases, took sputum for culturing and blood samples for testing. They found that 68% of the recruits displaying PAP symptoms were infected with Eaton Agent. And they found that Declomycin "significantly reduced the duration of fever, rales, cough, malaise and fatigue...
...discovery does not help much in treating individual cases. The disease is hard to diagnose. The symptoms closely resemble those of other infections, including parrot fever and flu. Laboratory tests to establish that Eaton Agent is involved may take three weeks. By that time, a patient is well over the hump. Conceding that antibiotics should not be used indiscriminately, an A.M.A. editorial nonetheless suggests that Declomycin be given in epidemic situations where Eaton Agent is strongly suspected to be the villain...