Word: pasteurizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more virulent smallpox. Jenner knew nothing about the immune system, but he had recognized that milkmaids who frequently came in contact with cows suffering from cowpox seldom contracted smallpox. Scientists began to suspect that the body had a mechanism for identifying and combatting disease agents only after Louis Pasteur discovered the existence of bacteria and in the 1850s propounded the germ theory of disease...
...announcement had been made almost anywhere else, it would probably have been dismissed as one more false alarm. But the word came from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, fons et origo of epochal research into man's relationship with the microbes: Institute scientists had devised a vaccine to protect against the present generation of influenza virus and against generations yet unborn. The vaccine, said last week's announcement, will be available almost immediately...
...immune to the radically different "Asian A2" and Hong Kong strains that erupted in those years. The Pasteur scientists do not claim to have anticipated such a major mutation. But in between such large alterations, the virus undergoes a process called "antigenic drift," in which subtle changes occur in the virus' protein overcoat. The now prevalent London flu strain represents one of several such minor changes in the basic Hong Kong virus of 1968, and generally available vaccines are only 50% effective against...
Raised Brows. To protect its patent rights, the self-supporting Pasteur Institute has not yet documented its find in scientific publications. Partly for that reason, some scientists still kept their eyebrows raised. How, they asked, could anyone be certain that he had anticipated all the mutants that resourceful nature might produce? It may take five years, they concluded, to prove the institute's claim that this was indeed a "revolutionary discovery...
...Harvard Medical School is being plagued by a rash of crimes--robberies, muggings and murders. Both students and administration are taking steps to counter the rise in crime, especially in the area around Vanderbilt Hall on Avenue Louis Pasteur, in Roxbury...