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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...
...from a worldwide epidemic of influenza. During the same period many U. S. pigs also died from an epidemic of a disease which duplicated all the symptoms of influenza in human beings. Stricken swine developed low fever, cough, bronchopneumonia. Last week the Rockefeller Institute's experts, Drs. Richard Edwin Shope & Thomas Francis Jr. declared, in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that their researches prove "that swine were originally infected with influenza from man in 1918." Human flu has weakened since 1918, pig flu continues unabated...
Practically as momentous was another report by other Rockefeller Institute investigators in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Drs. Christopher Howard Andrewes and Richard Edwin Shope found that a virus which affects rabbits changes its effects for no known cause. Some inoculations cause tumors, some inflammation. If the same virus can cause one result in one creature and another result in another creature, possibly other viruses mutate likewise...