Word: polio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems clear that there will not be a single breakthrough HIV vaccine on a par with the dramatic polio advances of the 1950s. In fact, it will probably take several generations of vaccine development to come up with even a partially effective preparation. Any future HIV vaccine will also have to counteract all 10 of the known subtypes of HIV found around the world--not to mention any new ones that might mutate into being. The task seems so daunting as to be impossible...
...these operations sound more military than medical, there is good reason. Back in the 1960s and '70s, public-health experts felt they had pretty much triumphed over infectious diseases. Smallpox was on the way to extinction; polio was all but vanquished; and, thanks to antibiotics, improving sanitation and pesticides, such maladies as tuberculosis, cholera and malaria were on the run. One by one, humankind's deadliest scourges were being wiped from the earth...
...social life to be cloyingly ingrown. "We usually stayed home to avoid contact with other races," Leyden explains. And as discontent seeped in, so did conflict. Leyden's brother is a policeman, and skinhead jokes about killing cops started to seem less than funny. His mother, who had polio as a child, has a slight limp, while Leyden's closest friends were busy calling disabled people "surplus whites...
...well. How can animals rights activists believe they are alleviating the amount of suffering in the world? By saving the animals they are keeping people ill with no chance of hope at life. By using animals for research now, these diseases could be wiped off the earth. Smallpox and polio have already been eliminated due to vaccines first tested on animals...
...continue the cycle of medical research advanced by luminaries such as Jonas Salk, who discovered a vaccine for polio, the U.S. needs "new talent, enthusiasm for science, money and strong institutions," Varmus said...