Word: hammons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even to him that he was sliding over from bacteriology to virology. "There was still conjecture as to whether measles was caused by a virus.'' he recalls. "Measles intrigued me as a problem that had been elusive for so long." Dr. Enders, working with Dr. William McD. Hammon, promptly ran into frustration of his own. The only animals that would catch measles were monkeys, and only a few of these. The researchers thought that they had got measles virus to infect a cat, only to discover that the animal had a different virus disease: cat distemper. This...