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Died. Dr. Richard E. Shope, 64, pioneer virologist, who in 38 years at the Rockefeller Institute was the first to isolate an influenza virus (1931) and the first to prove that a virus could cause cancer in rabbits (1932), scored two other feats by surviving a form of meningitis (caught from lab mice) rarely found in humans and by being one of the few to survive eastern equine encephalitis without brain damage; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan...
...telling the truth. Across the U.S., the flu season was reaching a peak. In the New York metropolitan area, most of the illness seemed to be of a mild variety caused by still unidentified viruses; New Eng land, Georgia and Florida had spotty outbreaks caused by Type B influenza virus. California, hardest hit, was in the throes of an epidemic of Asian Type-A flu. And Californians were spreading the virus in their Nevada playgrounds, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Las Vegas...
Wild Strains. The U.S. Public Health Service had long ago recommended widespread vaccinations and predicted major outbreaks this year of both Type A influenza, which runs in a three-year cycle, and Type B, which runs in two-or four-year cycles. The Communicable Disease Center expected Type A to miss the Eastern states, or brush them only lightly, because they had outbreaks last year. So far, the C.D.C. has been correct. In the East, influenza B has attacked mostly the young and the old, with only a modest increase in resultant pneumonia. The Asian flu attacks all age groups...
...came to Cambridge minus All-American foil expert Ron Schwartz who was bed-ridden with influenza...
...fewer colds -and therefore, says Andrewes, they tend to find "proof" that their own pet precautions really work. Useful vaccines may eventually be developed, but the difficulty is that there are too many cold viruses to put them all in one vaccine. What is needed is something like the influenza vaccine, a combination of the strains known to be prevalent at a given place and time. For the present, even that type cold vaccine is beyond the skill of the virologists...