Word: infecte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...batch of vaccine had gone through with some live virus in it. Like all vaccines, the Salk preparation contains germs of the disease that it is meant to fight. In the Salk process, these virus particles are killed, with formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen in a single case during last year's tests, it was conceivable that somewhere along the line there had been a laboratory slip-up in the job of killing the virus...
...vaccine can yet be prepared, since they perversely refuse to infect any animal but man. The P.H.S. has found many volunteer human guinea pigs in federal prisons, will soon report on its findings. The Army has some 60 investigators working on hepatitis. So far, the best protection seems to be scrupulous sanitation, and the only prophylactic, immunization with gamma globulin...
Like any grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower enjoys a romp with his grandchildren. But shortly after the three Eisenhower grandchildren arrived at the White House last week, the President was told to keep his distance: White House Physician Howard Snyder had detected a slight cold, and he warned Ike not to infect the kids. Despite the cold, the President kept steadily at his heavy schedule, and another ailment-a "slightly sprained" wrist-did not prevent him from a quick round of golf at Burning Tree Country Club...
Experts believe that epizootics of rabies are largely a result of over-population among certain animals. When foxes, for instance, get too thick, those that have got the disease from an outside source can find many others to bite and infect before they die. When the population thins out, rabies becomes rare because its victims die in solitude without spreading the disease...
...Bolles, new athletic director, was the second speaker. Bolles told the crowd that spirit was "contagious," and he asked each member of the audience to "infect" his neighbor...