Word: polio
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...Coles was fascinated by how a child in such a difficult situation could maintain such an outlook on life. He had noticed this optimism when treating victims of a polio epidemic at a Boston hospital in the late 1950s...
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT: Creating Windows 2000. Working to eradicate polio globally...
...site of the break and whose distal spinal cord (the part below the injury) often turns to mush as the old neurons die--will be the last people to be helped by this research, if they'll be helped at all. The "cure" will probably end up like the polio vaccine: preventing paralysis, not abolishing...
...true, the earlier date casts serious doubt on several controversial theories that purport to trace the beginning of the epidemic to the 1950s--specifically to experimental polio vaccines made from chimp tissue and tested in parts of Africa. A more likely scenario: the virus passed from animal to man during hunting and butchering when human and infected chimp blood intermingled...
...scientific establishment; unfortunately, those sanctions probably won't be enough to keep controversy at bay. The Los Alamos findings are at odds with the hypothesis proffered in the recent tome "The River," suggesting that HIV can be traced to chimpanzee tissue used in the development of the polio vaccines adopted in the 1950s. According to Korber's team's hypothesis, the current number of HIV strains means that in order for the virus to have originated from that vaccine, 10 different strains of the virus from different monkeys would have to have been part of each vaccination, and that, most...