Word: pox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Peri Wallace, who has been a force for the Crimson at the net all year, missed last night's game because of the chicken pox and is doubtful for the rest of the tourney...
...student before dropping out of high school after his junior year, Scott spent long hours preparing for the statewide police exam. He was sick with chicken pox when he took the test. A few weeks after the exam, he received a letter on official letterhead from deputy superintendent Zalas telling him that he had failed. "I was heartbroken," said Scott. The next day he went to Zalas and asked if he could take the exam again. When Zalas asked why, Scott handed him the letter. Zalas said he never wrote the letter. "Someone was just clowning around with him," says...
WHEN Amanda's fever passes 103 degrees and she is diagnosed as having AIDS, we are hardly surprised. Modern media coverage of the disease has made us more able to recognize AIDS symptoms than those of the chicken pox, and Hoffman's title, At Risk, is less than subtle. But the injustice that an 11 year-old who had a blood transfusion five years earlier, before blood donors were screened for AIDS, could contract this fatal disease hits home, and because we know Amanda so well, we feel as though a close friend is a victim of the disease...
...addition to causing AIDS and flu, viruses have brought the scourges of smallpox, yellow fever and polio. They bear responsibility for many of the familiar rashes of youth -- chicken pox, measles, rubella -- as well as such disparate disorders as the common cold, gastroenteritis, herpes, shingles, warts and mononucleosis. Viruses are known to cause at least one form of human cancer and are prime suspects in several other kinds of malignancies. Just last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds...
Latency is a characteristic common to all members of the troublesome herpes family. Herpes zoster, which causes chicken pox, sometimes hides in nerve cells, where no drug or antibody can reach it. Years after the pox attack, usually in middle or old age, zoster can sneak out and cause excruciating attacks of shingles. The Epstein-Barr virus, a herpes family member that causes infectious mononucleosis, follows a similar strategy, though its hiding place is not in the nerves but in the B cells, the very cells that make antibodies to viruses. In contrast to the dormant staying power of herpes...