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...parents hesitate to administer aspirin when their child has a fever. Yet, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the practice could be dangerous. The academy issued a warning last week advising its 24,000 members that aspirin should not be given to children suffering from influenza or chicken pox. Aspirin and related compounds have been statistically linked to a deadly ailment that strikes 600 to 1,200 American children a year. Reye's syndrome follows in the wake of viral illnesses, causing vomiting and high fevers and, in about a quarter of the cases, coma and death...
...with bacterially produced interferon, developed at Genentech. Interferon is part of a natural defense system against such viral diseases as influenza and hepatitis; it also seems to act against certain types of cancer, particularly cancer of the breast and the lymph nodes. But to date only extremely small quantities of it have been available, all painstakingly collected from blood cells and other human tissue. Relatively few patients, only several hundred out of the hundreds of thousands of cancer victims who might benefit from interferon, have been receiving the drug. Natural interferon is very costly (up to $150 for a daily...
...strain of influenza, an outbreak of which has reached epidemic proportions statewide, has struck Harvard...
...strain of influenza, Bangkok A, is similar to the Hong Kong flu and shares essentially the same symptoms-- coughing, chills, body aches, headaches and a low fever. Because of its relation to the Hong Kong flu, most people have developed some immunity to the Bangkok A strain, Wacker said...
Reye Syndrome. This malady primarily attacks children between the ages of five and eleven. No cause has been identified, but the syndrome has been linked to viral illness, commonly striking its young victims as they recover from chicken pox or influenza. The symptoms, described by Australian Pathologist R.D.K. Reye in 1963, are severe vomiting, followed by lethargy and later by personality changes, convulsions, coma and even death. The syndrome is rare. Last year fewer than 600 cases occurred in the U.S., mostly during the flu months of January, February and March. Both the public and physicians are becoming more familiar...