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...woolly-worm stings every four or five years, when the moths, and therefore their caterpillars, are especially numerous. In one recent year, Houston area doctors reported 2,130 cases; almost every one involved severe local pain and local swelling. One patient out of three had swelling of the lymph glands and a headache too severe to be relieved by aspirin. One in 20 went into shock, and eight patients had to be hospitalized, mainly for convulsions. Children are not the only victims: a Houston man was stung by a woolly worm's long back hairs when he picked...
...fascinating disease." It is, he says, at one and the same time an infection (presumably caused by a virus), a complex immune reaction, and an atypical, self-limiting form of leukemia. In "mono," several abnormal types of antibody are found at the times when the patient's lymph glands are overactive. Where the "not-self" or foreign proteins come from to start this process is not certain, but the likeliest source is the original virus, acting on lymph cells. And Dr. Dameshek notes that in three familiar diseases definitely known to be caused by viruses-German measles, viral pneumonia...
Grandma had the best name for the disease: "threeday measles."* The usual symptoms are a mild sore throat, a light rash, and a fever of not more than 102°. In children, some swelling of the lymph glands is common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication...
...Multiply. The spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow manufacture white blood cells of a type known as lymphocytes, which are loaded with antibody ammunition to battle any invader. They attack a transplant much as they would fight an army of diseasecausing virus particles. But transplant patients' lymphocytes show more hostility to cells from some donors than from others. Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn and Dr. Fritz Bach of New York University School of Medicine noted that when lymphocytes from two people of widely different ethnic groups were put together in a test tube, the cells became overactive; they enlarged and multiplied...
Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...