Word: infectivity
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Peace descends only when Malachy, the Patrickstown simpleton, is vouchsafed a vision of the Virgin, and the populace turns from litigation to religion. Not, however, before the Irish, who stand "on the periphery of chaos," move into dead center and, in the book's most comic turn, infect the Sassenach with their own fey reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild...
...Salk vaccine have argued that many cases might have been prevented if the advisory committee had not blocked the injection program. But the committee is worried about the opposite possibility: that the vaccine may have contributed to the epidemic. Live virus might slip through undetected, cause no infection in the person injected, yet it could multiply in his body and infect other members of the family or playmates. However, the committee expressed hope that by mid-January improved methods will have made the vaccine really safe...
...solution with an ultracentrifuge, and the protein fraction was precipitated by chemical treatment. The nucleic acid part of the virus was isolated by a slightly different method. Now neither part contained any complete virus particles. Both parts were inert chemicals, and thus had no power to infect a tobacco plant...
...Publicity Front. Huntington Hartford, A. & P. stores heir and art patron, took full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that art worldlings are pulling the wool over the public's eyes. No friend to modern art, Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business...
...true : there were actually fewer polio cases than would have been expected by chance. Ruminating on what could have gone wrong in vaccine mass production (see below), one expert said: "It seems clear that polio vaccine which, by all tests, shows no live virus is still able to infect some people...