Word: shope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More likely, his critics scoffed, Rous had inadvertently let some cancer cells slip through his filters. With infinite patience and persistent good humor, Dr. Rous extended his work to other kinds of tumors in different species of fowl. A quarter-century later, the late Dr. Richard E. Shope followed his lead and produced virus-induced tumors in rabbits. By now, half a dozen mammalian species carry viral cancers in the laboratory...
Died. Dr. Richard E. Shope, 64, pioneer virologist, who in 38 years at the Rockefeller Institute was the first to isolate an influenza virus (1931) and the first to prove that a virus could cause cancer in rabbits (1932), scored two other feats by surviving a form of meningitis (caught from lab mice) rarely found in humans and by being one of the few to survive eastern equine encephalitis without brain damage; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan...
Almost casually, in highly technical discussions held by the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, it was disclosed that Chairman Richard E. Shope, 58, virologist of the Rockefeller Institute, had become infected and the subject of a scientific first. Dr. Shope, working in Ocean County where encephalitis was raging, pitched energetically into the disease-detective work, collecting mosquitoes suspected of transmitting the virus. Inevitably, he was bitten. For a while he felt no ill effects. But during a mid-October train ride, Dr. Shope began to suffer chills; his muscles ached and his joints hurt. Next...
...Shope's temperature shot up to 104°, and for a week he endured spells of alternating chills. But the agonizing doubt was continuous. For if the virus attacked the brain, he would have only a one-in-three chance of surviving, and a one-in-30 chance of escaping without paralysis and with his mind unimpaired. Dr. Clarke reported proudly but sadly that she had isolated the virus from Dr. Shope's blood. It was the first time scientists had been able to find it in the blood of a living human victim (usually they...
...short for eastern viral encephalomyelitis. The disease is even deadlier for horses and pheasants, but can be prevented in these species by vaccination. So far, no vaccine has been approved for general use in man. Best current bet for control of EVE: identify the mosquito carriers, such as Dr. Shope was collecting, and exterminate them...