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Viruses, says Burnet, are an unhappy byproduct of civilization; they cannot survive in small or widely scattered populations. Because viruses multiply fast and change in unexpected ways, "new virus diseases of man may well arise in the future." But the chances against any new virus getting a strong foothold are a million...
Pulmonary anthrax, almost invariably fatal to man, might be effective-but it can get a foothold only on mucous membranes already raw with irritation. Rosebury & Kabat have a suggestion: mix up the anthrax spores with mustard...
...Barlow has long brooded on the possibility that Schistosomiasis might get a foothold in the U.S. The disease is widely prevalent in Asia, South & Central America, infected 1,633 GIs in the Philippines. Question: Is there a U.S. snail which could harbor the parasite? Two years ago, Dr. Barlow decided on a sacrificial investigation. Infecting himself with Egyptian flukes (220 of them, by a count of stings), he hastened to Washington, urged Public Health Service officials to let him turn his schistosomes loose in snail-populated waters to see whether they could thrive in the U.S. Officials recoiled in horror...
...many Canadians disturbed at the thought of U.S. troops permanently based in Canada. Few if any Canadians would regard this as a foothold for U.S. aggression. Nevertheless, the Canadians, who refused Britain permission to establish R.A.F. bases in the Dominion as late as 1938, want to go slow. (Actually the question of stationing British troops in Canada would probably raise much more furor.) They want to be sure there is no infringement of Dominion sovereignty...
Against this backdrop, the status of the Russian Baptists looked fine to the visitor from Atlanta. Baptist missionaries had struggled hard since the 18th Century to break the monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church, finally succeeded in getting a real foothold only 40 years ago. Their biggest boost came during the revolution, when the Reds used them to undermine Orthodoxy...