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...exciting idea: it is possible not only to prevent a large number of accidents, but also to immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...
...Reoviruses were so named in 1959 by Cincinnati's Polio Vaccine Developer Albert B. Sabin from the initials for "respiratory, enteric, orphan," because they are associated with odd sniffling and diarrheal disorders in men and monkeys but cause no known natural disease...
...psychiatrist, Coles' original interest was in pathology in situations of abnormal stress, and his first work was on families where children had been stricken with polio. During an Air Force tour of duty in Mississippi, Coles' range of concern widened. Struck by the dramatic collapse of a social and psychological way of life, he turned to study white and Negro children, along with their parents and teachers, under the heavy strains of school desegregation. He wanted to see how people managed the exertion of exchanging old ways of life for new ones. He refused to polarize his compassion, seeing...
...Klein has been comparing germi cides, and reports that Lister's phenol, or carbolic acid, is as potent as the fancier formulations of modern chem istry against most viruses; it is actually more potent against some of the small est viruses, which cause many respira tory diseases and polio. Also potent are sodium hypochlorite and near-pure al cohol. Restaurants and hospitals, sug gests Dr. Klein, should have their de tergents and germicides checked, to make sure that they are at least as good as the old, such as Lister...
...trouble with many live-virus vaccines is that the viruses of which they are made multiply in the body in such away as to cause illness. As a result, some measles vaccines produce what seems like a mild case of measles; some polio vaccines may make the vaccinee infectious to others. Virologists have long sought a way to deliver the live (though possibly weakened) virus of a vaccine into a part of the body where it will cause neither symptoms nor infection, but will still do its job of triggering antibody formation...