Word: sencer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronically ill be encouraged to get the mixed shots against A/Victoria. Finally, in what seemed a move to disassociate the new Administration from the whole swine flu fiasco, Califano asked for the resignation of the respected veteran director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control, Dr. David Sencer, who was a principal proponent and administrator of the swine flu program...
...hard to explain by any reckoning. Though other Pennsylvania health authorities disputed him, Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht speculated that the shots might have been improperly injected into a vein (and thus directly into the blood) rather than into muscle tissue, possibly accelerating any adverse reactions. Even Dr. David Sencer, director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is directing the nationwide inoculation program, acknowledged that while he felt the Pittsburgh deaths were probably coincidences, "we can't sit back and assume that...
Whatever killed the Legionnaires, the disease detectives concede, may, in the end, prove impossible to detect. "There's an outside chance we may never find out the cause," said CDC Director David Sencer. "I think we will. But there are times when disease baffles us all. It may be a sporadic, a onetime appearance...
...prepare a specimen for Electron Microscopist Frederick Murphy to magnify up to 200,000 times. If he has caught his prey, its picture can be thrown onto a screen for a roomful of epidemiologists to see. Last week Dr. Murphy prepared such a specimen, and CDC Director David Sencer asked him: "Where is your picture?" A frustrated Murphy replied, "The picture is blank." Dr. Sencer then admitted: "We do not know what the disease...
...specimen until it vaporizes. When a bright light is shone through the vapor and passed through a prism, it yields a distinctive spectrum. Yet further tests will be run with an atomic spectrometer, which searches for deadly heavy metals like mercury and lead. A shotgun approach like this, says Sencer, should disclose whether "there are chemicals you would not expect to find in human tissue." If such chemicals can be found, the detectives may have their solution...