Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regularly every June in Japan and Korea, subsides in September. Peak numbers of cases go with hot, wet weather. In southern Japan, up to 95% of all tested subjects over 20 have antibodies which give them immunity: they have had an undetected, mild case, as so often happens with polio. But in cold, northern Hokkaido, fewer than 10% have antibodies. Where the people have antibodies, so have horses, cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. So Japanese farmers who have brought chickens into their homes (and Koreans who have asked the cattle in) during the epidemic season were working on the right...
Practical Possibility. The technique of degrading and reconstituting viruses may make it possible to create safe and effective vaccines against diseases, e.g., polio, that are caused by simple viruses. Only about 1% of the TMV particles that were reconstituted during the experiment proved fully infectious. The rest were imperfect in some way. Apparently their protein molecules had not arranged themselves properly. When scientists learn to control this rebuilding process, they may be able to produce slightly imperfect viruses that can stimulate the defensive forces of the human body, but cannot start a real infection. Says Dr. Williams: "This...
Still in search of additional scoring punch, soccer coach Bruce Munro will use a revised front line when the varsity eleven meets the undefeated Lord Jeffs at Amherst today at 2 p.m. The game, originally scheduled for Oct. 1, was postponed because of polio at Amherst...
...Arthur Godfrey fired Baritone Julius La Rosa, Ed had the young singer on his show the same week ("There's nothing personal in it-if Arthur got fired, I'd hire him"). The human interest touches are usually emotional. Sullivan presented Helen Hayes shortly after the tragic polio death of her 19-year-old daughter, Mary MacArthur; Broadway Director Josh Logan (South Pacific), who had suffered a breakdown, spoke feelingly on Ed's show about the problems of mental health. Observes Ed: "It's things like these that people remember about a show, things that touch...
...combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen...