Word: polio
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...foot-and-mouth may finally be checked. Last week Agriculture Secretary John Block announced that researchers from the California gene-splicing firm Genentech, Inc., in collaboration with his department's scientists, had produced a safe, effective vaccine against the disease. Like polio viruses, the tiny virus that causes foot-and-mouth has a coating of four proteins. A team of Agriculture Department scientists, led by Biochemist Howard Bachrach, had isolated one of them, calling it VP3 (for virus protein). Injecting the substance into test animals, they found it created immunity without causing infection. But using it was risky, because...
...life sounds hard, Forss describes it with the abstract air of a man in love with his work. Besides, his knockabout past has immunized him to mere annoyances. Born in the South Bronx, Forss endured a bout of polio at age three, and the loss of his carpenter father, who took to thievery, using a hand-carved wooden pistol, and was deported back to Sweden after a fling at bank robbery. His Italian mother remarried, and George moved through a series of orphanages and boys' homes. "Let's face it," he says, "we were a welfare family...
...Robert Morgan, that Morgan looked like a liberal. At the same time, the club's skillfully edited TV ads in favor of East made him look so vigorous that most people in the state were unaware until after the election that the new Senator is a victim of polio and confined to a wheelchair...
...same characteristic which, in part, inspired Mead's exploration of other cultures helped bring about a vaccine for polio and the invention of the geodesic dome. Salk developed the polio vaccine after he challenged the wisdom fed to him in medical school that only living viruses could be used to vaccinate against viral diseases. Fuller developed the geodesic dome after he discarded the square and turned to the triangle as the most stable figure in nature. His domes, built from a collection of triangles, enclose, per pound of material, 30 times the unobstructed interior space of any known alternative clear...
...list of deadly but controllable diseases is long and impressive: plague, diphtheria, malaria, polio, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever. Even cancer and heart disease at last seem to be yielding up their secrets to medical research. But in the past ten years, doctors have focused on a number of mysterious "new" ailments, notably Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome...