Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant announced receipt of a grant of $30,000 for polio research last night, as many of the nation's public health teachers prepared to meet here today in the annual conference of the Association of Public Health Schools...
...that, the good & bad, was past. When Maury went to Los Angeles to practice law a year ago (he sold his San Antonio house in 1941), the city began to wonder about him. She looked tacky, her policing was sloppy, she had floods and bad drainage. Then a polio epidemic caught her health department off balance. Citizens were getting fed up with the bumbling, fix-nothing administration of spluttery Mayor Gus Mauermann. Even Maury's old enemies began phoning him in Los Angeles and Maverick-for-Mayor stickers began to appear...
...refining process kill the virus? Loring and Schwerdt thought lowering the temperature might keep the virus alive. As part of a long process, they made an extract from the brains and spinal cords of polio-infected cotton rats, froze it. Then, letting it start to thaw, they whirled their material in an ultra-high-speed centrifuge (60,000 revolutions per minute) to separate its protein, and with chemicals refined the protein further. Eventually they isolated a particle less than two-billionths of an inch in diameter. The protein particle proved to be 80 to 95% pure virus; a billionth...
Next step: to inactivate the virus (by ultraviolet radiation or chemicals) and produce a concentrated vaccine that might prevent polio...
...Deaver turned to a small figure with blue-ribboned braids in a small wheelchair. "Come on, honey," he said. Five-year-old Maureen Eagan (paralyzed by polio since the age of two) gravely slipped out of her chair, toddled shakily across the floor and fell into the doctor's arms. Said Deaver, as she buried a brown head in his shoulder: "She's going to walk as well as anyone...