Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD: FEEDING THE BILLIONS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An NBC News report on how scientists hope to answer the problem of increasing world food shortages. Newscaster Frank McGee examines such experimentation as the production of algae from industrial, domestic and agricultural waste as a source of cheap protein. Repeat...
Children's War. The real enemy, however, is the protein shortage that afflicts blockaded Biafra, and grows worse with each day. Attempts to alleviate it through large-scale relief measures have so far foundered on either Nigerian or Biafran intransigence. Kwashiorkor, a deadly protein deficiency, is killing scores of Ojukwu's people daily. Estimates of the extent of the suffering are at best approximate, but from 1,500 to 40,000 Biafrans are dying of starvation each week. The grisly figures are expected to mount dramatically if the war does not end soon. "There is so little food...
Prices in Biafra have skyrocketed. A chicken that cost 70? before the war now brings $5.50. The government and the missionaries are advising the people to eat rats, dogs, lizards, even white ants to get some protein into their systems. Gasoline is rationed and electricity is in short supply...
...Although surgeons were sure that the procedure would work, the longest survival among the first patients was 23 days. In most cases, death resulted from infection, to which the patients were especially susceptible because of generous use of drugs to suppress the mechanism by which the body rejects foreign protein...
What is ALG? It is the nearest thing to a natural medication yet found to suppress the mechanism by which the body seeks to reject any foreign protein implanted in it. By that mechanism, the human system produces antibodies that attack the proteins in the transplants. The antibodies are made or transported by white blood cells, or lymphocytes, which multiply astronomically in the presence of foreign tissue...