Word: serum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to the problem was hopping around a nearby pen. Dr. Adams inserted the fertilized ova in the womb of a female rabbit and shipped her by air to South Africa. There, four days later, Dr. George Hunter in Pietermaritzburg flushed the ova out with sheep's blood serum and found them still healthy. Transferred to ewes of low degree, six of them are about to be delivered as highbred English lambs...
...disease is not to be taken lightly: it almost invariably results in inflammation of the liver-though a less dangerous form of hepatitis than the widespread infectious hepatitis or serum hepatitis (TIME, Nov. 14), which are caused by different viruses. And mono must be carefully doctored and nursed, says Colonel Hoagland, because in a few neglected cases it has caused rupture of the spleen, meningitis or heart block-and death...
Physicians make a sharp distinction between infectious hepatitis, usually spread by fecal matter, and the relatively rare serum hepatitis, or "needle jaundice," which is carried only by the blood, is therefore contracted from transfusions or improperly sterilized hypodermic needles. Infectious hepatitis can be spread in a number of ways. A disastrous epidemic struck Delhi, India early in 1956, when a huge sewage canal overflowed into the Jumna River, from which both Old and New Delhi draw water. Within eight weeks, 30,000 cases and 420 deaths were recorded. Sewage-contaminated water has been blamed for small outbreaks this year...
...from the disease, but even mild attacks are thought to precipitate progressive liver disease and cirrhosis. Many patients recover after seven or eight weeks, but others are still sick at the end of a year or more, and relapses are fairly common. Some patients become unwitting carriers of the serum type, retaining the virus in their system for years. For this reason, no person on record as having had hepatitis is permitted to donate blood for transfusions...
...studied the secretive Dr. Durovic's method of injecting into horses a preparation of killed and sterilized fungi,* waiting for the horses' systems to react, then bleeding them and extracting Krebiozen from their blood serum by a highly involved process. He has duplicated the process and has a vial containing a few milligrams of an off-white powder which he believes is identical with Durovic's Krebiozen. Ivy has also worked on Krebiozen's chemistry. It is, he declares, a "tissue hormone" secreted by the RES cells. If Krebiozen is indeed a tissue hormone...