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...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...
Then the researchers took batches of identical mice. Into one group they injected the leukemic brain fluid. Virtually all of these developed leukemia. But a second group got an injection of purified serum from the prisoners' blood before the leukemic brain fluid. Only half of these got leukemia. Dr. Schwartz's conclusion: the prisoners, being healthy and not predisposed to leukemia, had reacted the way most normal human beings do, and had made antibodies against the leukemia virus in the brain fluid. These antibodies made their serum work like a crude vaccine, which protected half the mice...
...them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies. But all is not well in their paradise. Last week Herpetologist Alphonse Richard Hoge of São Paulo's Butantan Institute of serum therapy reported that the snakes were producing more and more offspring that were neither male nor female, but hermaphrodites...
...definition, it was no news when a snake bit a man in St. Joseph, Mo. a fortnight ago, and little more newsworthy when, thanks to antisnakebite serum, the man recovered. But last week the snake made news: it died as a result of the bite it had inflicted...
...Indian hooded cobra, it bit the hand of William White. 32, a professional snake handler in a reptile garden. Serum flown from Miami by Air Force jet saved White. But the cobra's fangs were loosened by the heavy burlap bag through which it struck, and its jaw was dislocated when White jerked his hand away. Infection of the injured mouth killed the snake...