Word: herpesvirus
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Monkey Tricks. Other research under study at Bethesda raises the problem of ensuring the safety of any live-virus material grown in tissue cultures of monkeys' kidney cells. The kidneys of the monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live...
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