Word: globulin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other times attack the nervous system. Doctors used to think that the only one of the three capable of causing paralysis was the virus of polio itself. This may not be so, say Hammon and colleagues. After studying six patients who were immunized against polio with gamma globulin in prevaccine days and then developed a paralytic disease that was mistaken for polio, they now suggest that the guilty viruses were of the Coxsackie group (named for the Hudson Valley town where the first one was isolated) or the ECHO group (named for enteric cytopathogenic human orphan). Concludes the A.M.A.: Viruses...
...meet the plane at Pittsburgh, and he had already conferred by phone with Virus Expert Jonas Salk, who was at a meeting in New York City. Salk's advice: give each member of the crew, and the baggage smashers in Baltimore and Washington, a double dose of gamma globulin and a dose of polio vaccine, and disinfect the plane. The passengers were allowed to take their luggage after it had been sluiced down with alcohol. The plane's interior got a dousing with hydrogen peroxide (the entire stock of three drugstores), Lysol and isopropyl alcohol. After consulting...
...power of milk antibodies has not been clearly proved in the case of normal diseases of animals, let alone humans. Unfortunately, also, the protection with which Petersen and Campbell hope to spike their milk is sharply limited. It depends on passive immunity-the kind conferred by shots of gamma globulin against measles and possibly polio. Only active immunity (from the disease itself or direct vaccination) is lasting; passive immunity will wear off in a few weeks at most, after the intake of bovine antibodies stops...
...first milk given after calving, which is especially rich in fats and proteins. One of the proteins is gamma globulin, which, in turn, contains antibodies...
Radcliffe plans no quarantine as a result of the polio case but will give gamma globulin shots today to any students who were in contact with Miss Fincke, Dr. Barbara Guard of the Health Center said last night...