Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their report on polio made last fortnight in Science, they told how they and Yale experts John Rodman Paul and James Bowling Trask spent the summer catching flies, a summer job that may eventually help to bring poliomyelitis under control...
...Since the war in Europe there have been twelve cases of polio, twenty of meningitis in the U.S. Army. This is far lower than the rate among the civilian population...
...many cities health officers warned parents to put their children to bed if they showed the slightest symptoms of colds, stiff necks or bellyaches. For the polio virus seems to spread through the nervous system when children take strenuous exercise...
...President ate turkey, shook hands with discombobolated Helen Cothran, 4 (who shifted her sticky candy to her left hand just in time), with Wade Cothran, 3 (who had cake in both hands, put most of it in his mouth and said "Glmph!" to the President), and with 90 other polio patients. In a gay little speech he said deliberately: "I hope to be down here in March, without any question, if the world survives." (In April 1939, he had said deliberately: "I'll be back in the fall -if we don't have...
...Jungeblut and Sanders are still nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...