Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of parents, July's polio scares in North Carolina, California and Texas (see MEDICINE) seemed more real and frightening than the Russian blockade of Berlin. Shade, cold beer, watermelon and air conditioning assumed a great seasonal significance. California fruitgrowers and shippers noted an increase in the demand for lemons...
...interest in his own disease was still strong; he carried on polio research as "a hobby." Last week he reported to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine the results of his hobby: he has isolated a polio virus 99.96% pure. Best previous results: a virus 80 to 95% pure, isolated at Stanford University a year ago (TIME...
...Gollan's work, said Dr. Maurice B. Visscher, head of Minnesota's department of physiology, makes the possibility of an anti-polio vaccine "very much greater than ever." But a lot of work remains to be done...
...important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, who made a wheelchair comeback in 1942 after being stricken with polio, prepared to come back a little more this week. After months of practice she would sing standing-in Elektra in Chicago's Orchestra Hall-for the first time in six years...