Word: md
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Wilson Catonsville, Md...
Mike Mitchel Frostburg, Md...
Randallstown, Md...
...initial deaths, at least nine states closed flu-shot clinics. Meanwhile, samples of vaccine used in Pittsburgh-from a lot labeled 913339A, produced by Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co., one of four manufacturers-were rushed to the Food and Drug Administration's biologies bureau in Rockville, Md., where they were tested and given a clean bill of health. Reassured, several states ordered clinics reopened...
Gajdusek, 53, of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., found the cause of a puzzling fatal degenerative brain disease called kuru, which long plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...