Word: polio
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...these shots necessary? No, says a group of experts headed by Harvard's Dr. Thomas C. Peebles, who shared a Nobel prize for his part in the research that made polio vaccines possible. The experts do not intend to minimize the importance of vaccination against tetanus, the infection that usually results from deep and dirty wounds in which the tetanus bacteria can thrive without air. Every year it kills almost 200 Americans, the doctors point out in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Divorced. By George Balanchine, 65 master choreographer and artistic director of the New York City Ballet Company for 20 years: Tanaquil LeClerq, 39, onetime prima ballerina who, after becoming Balanchine's fifth wife, was forced to give up dancing forever when she contracted polio in Copenhagen in 1956; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio when I was nine. The whole family had to be evacuated, and all my things burned. Even my magic box, full of things that were magical...
...like the measles and polio viruses, may cause permanent damage. Others, like those of hepatitis and rabies, may spend months in incubation before they cause apparent illness. But these, it had been thought, were the exceptions. A researcher trying to indict a virus as the cause of a still unexplained disease has ordinarily injected his test materials into small lab animals and waited a few months. If none of the animals got the disease in that time, he killed them and wrote off the experiment as a failure...
Minlc and Man. To researchers, there are many suggestive similarities between scrapie in sheep and multiple sclerosis in man. Poskanzer has suggested that MS may be a late manifestation of a childhood infection similar to that of non-paralytic polio. Gajdusek sees a striking resemblance between Aleutian mink disease and a lethal congenital detect in partially albino children...