Word: pasteurized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was not the work of one scientist alone. There is no Louis Pasteur of AIDS. Science today is too costly and too complex for that. Modern research, and especially AIDS research, is a richly collaborative effort. But in the shared achievement of the thousands of scientists and physicians who have helped bring AIDS this year to what seems to be a historic turning point, one name stands...
...there any task left to be performed by 14,000 heavily armed troops? Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu said he did not believe military intervention was necessary any longer, and he relayed that view to the U.N. Security Council--which voted to authorize the mission anyway. Canada still planned to go. But Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital...
...history of science has a recurring theme, it is surely the relationship between chance happenings and the vigilant minds of those prepared to take advantage of them. Since Louis Pasteur first remarked on the affinity of the two in 1854, many instances of coincidence or happenstance have led alert observers to unexpected discoveries--often while they were searching for something else altogether. Just such an event, in fact, launched 20th century medicine on the extraordinary march of progress that has brought it to the high and continuously promising state it enjoys today...
...takes money to do surveillance, though, and the CDC and the WHO, along with such institutions as France's Pasteur Institute, are already stretched very thin. That is why health professionals are relying more and more on modern communications technology, including the Internet, to gather the information they need about disease outbreaks. Heymann's EMC already has its own page under the who Website, and an E-mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
...pronounce the words faith and healing together without an implied sneer. Of course, people have never stopped praying for divine intercession on behalf of their stricken loved ones; and some religious groups, like Christian Scientists, continue to see spiritual engagement as the paramount medical technique. But at least since Pasteur and Ehrlich established the connection between microbes and disease in the 19th century, medicine had regarded belief as a distraction at best and, should it make claims to medical efficacy, as a possible symptom of a pathology called fraud...