Word: monkeyism
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...Monkey Danger. Thousands of lives have been saved with polio vaccines made from virus grown in cells from monkeys' kidneys. But monkeys harbor a mysterious "monkey virus B," which is nearly always fatal in man. At least 18 lab workers, write Drs. Frances M. Love and Erwin Jungherr of Lederle Laboratories, have become infected with "monkey B"-and many other cases have gone undiagnosed...
...Monkeys carry the virus without showing any ill effects. But in a case described by Physician Love and Veterinarian Jungherr. a 24-year-old lab worker came down with a bewildering variety of symptoms after going to work as a monkey handler, developed a polio-like stiffness of the neck and died. The autopsy showed that monkey virus B had spread through his lungs, heart, spinal cord and brain...
Virus B belongs to the herpes family, and the victim may have been infected by saliva-a monkey's spit may be as bad as its bite. Lederle now allows only specially trained personnel, following rigid rules, to be near its temperamental monkeys...
...from certain about what has happened to the man of the past. All we can say is that Robert Ardrey has presented a stale if intriguing view of man. He has given us some notion of how much man may still have in common with the monkey that so disappointed Mark Twain's Heavenly Father
...distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making him hang head down by his knees. Then they take a live wire and shock his testicles with...