Word: rus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klein made the point that the women's... vote did not simply appear and disappear," said Jeanne L. Wirka '86, president of the RUS...
...speech was co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies...
...Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease...
...developed chickenpox. But no vaccinated child caught the disease. A few children getting the vaccine had pain, swelling and redness at the injection site and chickenpox-like rashes, but there were no long-lasting or serious adverse effects. The experimental vaccine was developed from a strain of varicella vi rus isolated in 1974 in Japan by Dr. Michiaki Takahashi. Researchers used a live but weakened form of the virus to trigger the body's immunological system into producing antibodies against the disease. The idea, explains Weibel, is "to induce immunity without inducing clinical disease...
Some researchers are concerned that the vaccine's altered vi rus might actually promote the development of shingles. Another great worry is cancer. Viruses are a suspected cause, and another member of the herpes family, the simplex virus, is under suspicion, says Plotkin, "though proof is far from complete." Dr. Kenneth Mclntosh, a pediatrician at the Infectious Disease Laboratory of Boston's Children's Hospital, warns that before the Merck vaccine can be put to widespread use, "more years" of research are necessary to resolve such questions. Researchers also need to know how long the immunity...