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...heart attack; in Salamanca, Spain. As a researcher at Princeton's Rockefeller Institute, Stanley in 1935 was the first scientist to crystallize and identify a virus. He later organized Berkeley's internationally renowned virus laboratory, where he directed research that led to the isolation of the polio virus...
...fails to respond to many cancer cells, although they have unique antigens that should alert the body to their presence. Accordingly, doctors have begun exploring ways of beefing up the body's defenses and immunizing man against cancer in the same way that he can now be vaccinated against polio and other viral diseases...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
...occasion is the reunion of four men back from the war-a refugee from a concentration camp, a doctor who was a partisan guerrilla, a would-be politician who joined the fascists, and a black marketeer who made a fortune by profiteering. While Siena's annual Polio, an ancient horseracing festival, erupts in the background, the men and their families struggle to come to terms with their past and to learn how to go about their daily business again...
Unfortunately, it is already clear that this year's record will not be quite so good as last year's. There has been an outbreak of polio, with four deaths, in two Texas counties bordering on Mexico: one child was unvaccinated, and three others had not completed the vaccine series. Other sporadic outbreaks can be expected among the unvaccinated in the future, but last year's record makes it clear that the once dreaded summer polio season is a problem of the past...