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...Bernard Roizman has arrived from the University of Chicago to pontificate on "Herpes Simplex Virus Versus the Host Cell: The Strategy of Conquest." In the MEC Amphitheater, MEC Educational Building...
...poorly understood but that usually involve stress, fatigue, sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent cure for herpes exists, and none is in sight...
...herpes would be an agent that activated the immune system before an attack. Once the virus has tunneled into the ganglia, it may be too late for a cure. "You would need a pretty remarkable drug to attack the virus genes without damaging the host cells," explains Notkins. Bernard Roizman at the University of Chicago is one of many researchers engaged in the international search for a herpes vaccine. The main challenge, he explains, is to create a substance that poses none of the dangers of the virus itself. "It can't cause cancer, for instance," he says...
...original, serves as a good example of what a talented director can do with intractable material. Irvin Kershner, who is known for such pocket dramas as The Hoodlum Priest and Loving, is working for the first time on a large scale. With the excellent assistance of Cameraman Owen Roizman (The Exorcist), he brings off some fine set pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing. The Return of a Man Called Horse...
Sabin's dilemma is no surprise to some U.S. virologists. Dr. Andre Nahmias of Atlanta's Emory University, a leading authority on herpes viruses, feels that Sabin went far beyond his data in claiming that herpes viruses account for 25% of human tumors. Dr. Bernard Roizman, professor of microbiology at the University of Chicago, believes that some of the experiments were oversimplified and lacked controls. But none of the researchers is willing to dismiss the indictment against herpes. All have found circumstantial evidence linking the viruses to certain human cancers. But all feel that they need better proof...