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...York doctors were pretty sure last week that grey house mice can carry infantile paralysis, and said so, pretty clearly-for doctors. Clause Jungeblut and Gilbert Dalldorf reported in the American Journal of Public Health that they had found similar viruses (tentatively identified as Theiler's strain of the poliomyelitis group) in the brains of a man who died of infantile paralysis and a mouse found dead in his cellar. This was the first time such a virus has ever been found in a common house mouse...
...Jungeblut and Dr. Dalldorf hoped their "preliminary observations" would at least stir many a mouse-tolerant householder to action...
Last fortnight, in the Rockefeller Journal of Experimental Medicine, Drs. Claus W. Jungeblut and Murray Sanders of Columbia University announced the next step: successful immunization of monkeys against polio. First they took a strain of live polio virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them...
...Jungeblut and Sanders are still nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...
...seems safe to state," said Dr. Jungeblut, "that under certain restricted experimental conditions, vitamin C is capable of influencing favorably the course of the infection in monkeys." The vitamin does not relieve paralytic symptoms, he continued, but merely checks the course of the disease before paralysis sets in. Dr. Jungeblut has not yet tried vitamin C injections in human patients, but he feels sure that "a low level of vitamin C nutrition predisposes to infection and severity of attack...