Word: rubella
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...medical researchers working for the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results, to be both effective and safe. Their report to the American Pediatric Society, declared PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart, indicates that this disease, notorious as a killer and crippler of the unborn, "can be brought under control in the not too distant future...
Delicate Balance. The successful vaccine was made in a mere four years after the elusive rubella virus was originally persuaded to grow in the laboratory (TIME, Aug. 3, 1962). It was a virological feat equivalent to the running of the first four-minute mile.* Yet even this speed was not enough to save an estimated 30,000 U.S. babies from inborn defects such as cataracts, heart malformations and mental retardation. For in 1963-65, history's worst recorded epidemic of German measles swept inexorably across the U.S., disabling more infants than did the thalidomide disaster in Europe. In addition...
...rubella tamers are two pediatricians still in their 30s, Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. and Dr. Paul D. Parkman. Though German measles is almost invariably trivial for all but the baby in the womb, the raw virus could not be used as a vaccine because of the danger that newly vaccinated children might spread the infection to pregnant women. The researchers' task was to weak en the virus, and strike a delicate balance, leaving it infectious for those who are vaccinated, but noninfectious for their contacts. They decided to domesticate the virus in cultures of kidney cells from African...
...medical "palmists" look for is half a dozen common abnormalities. A single deep crease, instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...
...letter Y formed by the junction of three lines. The crucial one is the axial triradius; on most palms it is just above the first flesh crease where hand joins wrist. If, in both hands, it is higher up, closer to the fingers, it may indicate inborn abnormalities from rubella or other causes...