Word: serum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disease Agent. Finally, Lee made the crucial connection. He took viral material from a Korean subspecies of the mouse known as Apodemus agrarius and mixed it with blood serum from patients recuperating from hemorrhagic fever. The blood proved to contain antibodies-protective proteins developed by the body's immune system in response to invading foreign substances -that matched and combined with the viral material from the mouse. There were no such linkups when Lee did the same with the blood of people who had never suffered from hemorrhagic fever. Thus the mouse virus was almost certainly the cause...
...important conversations in a lead-shielded "safe" room that is regularly swept for bugs. But some officials expressed concern for the health of embassy residents and workers. High-intensity microwaves, like those used in electronic kitchen ovens, can "cook" human cells. They can cause cataracts and raise levels of serum triglycerides, or blood fats, in humans, predisposing them to heart attacks. The waves can also interfere with the operation of heart pacers...
...allergic reaction. Hamburger, who himself suffers from hay fever, then tested the effectiveness of his blocking agent by experimenting on himself, his wife and two daughters and a colleague, Dr. W. Virgil Brown, whom he describes as "exquisitely allergic to guinea pigs." Injecting some of Brown's blood serum under his own skin, Hamburger found that he developed a classic allergic reaction, complete with large red welts, when he exposed himself to guinea pig extract. But after he injected himself with the peptide, his allergic reactions were reduced...
Second, the article continues: "Klotz also made a serum of dirt, dust and other substances and told the nurses to inject it into students as an allergy treatment." When I treat a patient who has allergy problems, I use FDA approved sterile extracts made of dust, ragweed, air molds and other inhalant pollens that I have determined to be causing the condition. The use of the word dirt is both nonscientific and derogatory...
...Snow did not state that Dr. Klotz ordered urine injections, and TIME regrets the error. She said: "Dr. Klotz ordered me to have students at Green Valley collect dirt and dust from the school grounds. From this, Dr. Klotz prepared a serum and instructed the nurses at his clinic to inject a small amount into every Green Valley student sent...