Word: globulin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students and a teacher became sick after eating the fruit last week. Schools in California, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, also received the bad strawberries. Health officials in Los Angeles said up to 9,000 students and teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective up to two weeks after exposure. The outbreak came during peak growing season in California, where 80 percent of the U.S. strawberry crop is grown, causing some worried suppliers to cancel orders. One grower said he lost $12,700 in canceled orders Wednesday...
...them down and kill them--even if doing so destroys the very life the donated organ was meant to save. The doctors believed the best weapons they had at their disposal were drugs designed to disable the immune system, if only partially. A mixture of azathioprine, prednisone and antilymphocyte globulin was the choice in the 1960s. In the '80s, cyclosporine proved even more effective. It was assumed that these drugs worked simply by disarming the body's built-in commandos--the human leukocyte antigens (HLAS) and T cells--long enough for the invading organs to gain a foothold...
...three years. They were dying, Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...