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...Medlock and co-author Alison Galvani of Yale University School of Medicine studied mortality data and data of infectious contacts from the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 1957. They then built a mathematical model to determine the best distribution by age for vaccinations, in order to contain the spread of a theoretical pandemic. In their calculations, the most effective policy was to aim first for inoculating children ages 5 to 19 and adults ages 30 to 39. That's because school-age children are such a powerful nexus of flu infection: they get sick, infect one another in the close...
...Eight had earlier sent out a leaflet claiming responsibility for the raid. The group's members include the Rev. John Galvani, a Somerville priest who is now a second year student in religion in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Besides Galvani, one other priest and a nun are members of the group...
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...Travell was a young physician building his practice and raising two daughters, frogs were still common in Manhattan. They came in handy: Dr. Travell wanted his daughters to become physicians, so he dissected the frogs in anatomy lessons for them and showed them the historic experiment in which Luigi Galvani discovered electric currents in a twitching frog's leg. The lessons took. Last week, to the quiet satisfaction of Dr. Travell, now retired at a ripe 91, Younger Daughter Janet, 59, became a big frog in a big pond: President Kennedy named her as his personal physician...
...Quantitatively, the result at present is not significant," concedes Rabinowitch. (Neither, he might have added, was Galvani's first circuit, in 1790.) "But qualitatively it is important...