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...collared a few random facts, for what they might be worth. The cold virus can stand a lot of cold: it survived temperatures as low as -94° Fahrenheit. The virus' diameter is estimated to be one ten-thousandth of a millimeter (about the size of the influenza virus...
...Stanley is a leading U.S. authority on viruses (which cause such diseases as influenza and infantile paralysis). Twelve years ago he discovered the flabbergasting fact that a certain virus (of tobacco mosaic disease) is "both living and dead": it can reproduce like a living organism but can also form crystals like a lifeless chemical substance...
...Thomas Francis Jr., 47, of the University of Michigan, who isolated influenza virus B and helped develop a vaccine against the disease, for leadership in the worldwide fight against...
Viruses are the cause of some of mankind's most deadly epidemic diseases-e.g., influenza, yellow fever, smallpox, infantile paralysis. But until a few years ago, nobody had ever seen a virus. Now, thanks to the electron microscope which makes them visible, biologists are able to study the viruses' submicroscopic world...
...which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs...