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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...
Viral pneumonia is sometimes known, as Senator Sam Ervin Jr. referred to it in his lip-smackin' drawl, as "walkin' pneumonia." Often, as Dr. David J. Sencer of the U.S. Center for Disease Control pointed out, it is no worse than a bad cold or a touch of flu. But for some victims, especially those over 50, the bug that hospitalized President Nixon last week is a misery-making, debilitating illness. Victims can be reassured by the fact that viral pneumonia proves fatal in less than 1% of cases...
...orders 100 tests a month to bill his patients for tests at $3 to $10 each. At whatever price, a test is worse than useless and may have fatal results unless the technicians know how to run it and have the right equipment. On this score also, Dr. Sencer had bad news. More than 20% of test materials examined by the NCDC were found faulty...
There is wide variation in the quality of testing done in laboratories within hospitals, largely as a result of the shortage of trained technicians. There is still greater variation in the backroom labs behind doctors' offices, but just how good or bad their work is, said Dr. Sencer, has never been surveyed. And in the best-regulated, best-run labs, mental obsolescence is a major problem-many doctors, as well as technicians, learned their skills 20 or more years ago, before most of the 1,000 testing procedures now known had been developed...