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...youth -- chicken pox, measles, rubella -- as well as such disparate disorders as the common cold, gastroenteritis, herpes, shingles, warts and mononucleosis. Viruses are known to cause at least one form of human cancer and are prime suspects in several other kinds of malignancies. Just last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds of lymphoma and may even play a role in a chronic fatigue illness that seems to strike adults. One prominent virologist, Dr. William Haseltine of Harvard...
...southern China, the virus plays a role in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat that afflicts more than 50,000 people a year. Retroviruses are known to cause cancer in a wide range of animals, from mice to chickens. In the early 1980s, Dr. Robert Gallo and his co-workers, as well as a group of Japanese researchers, showed for the first time that a retrovirus is responsible for cancer in humans. The culprit is now called human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 1 (HTLV-1), which causes a rare and extremely aggressive adult leukemia that occurs...
...first synthesized in 1964 by Jerome Horwitz of the Michigan Cancer Foundation as a possible anticancer drug. But it proved ineffective against tumors and was largely forgotten until 1984, after Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris independently isolated the AIDS virus...
...same ceremony, awards will go to National Institutes of Health physician Robert C. Gallo, chief of the tumor cell biology laboratory, and Luc Montagnier, professor of viral oncology at France's Pasteur Institute. The scientists are credited with isolating the AIDS virus...
REPORTER- RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O' Hara- Forster, Victoria Sales (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Elaine Dutka, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy...