Word: simplex
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...previous debate on the issue, the city council has tended to mirror the sharp division that exists within Cambridgeport between MIT, the principal landowner, and the neighborhood group, which calls itself the Simplex Steering Committee. None of the four zoning petitions brought before the council in the last two years has even reached the stage of a final vote...
...agreement on zoning the area is now urgent, committee members say, because MIT will soon select a developer for 27 acres land that it owns in Cambridgeport called the Simplex Development Area. Current zoning laws would allow MIT to build virtually whatever it wants on the property, and the neighborhood group is pushing for more restrictive zoning...
This perplexing persistence is characteristic of all five members of the human herpes family. After herpes simplex 1 and 2, the best known is the varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chicken pox, the nation's third most common ailment. Three-quarters of the U.S. population gets chicken pox by age 15. Most are never bothered by the virus again, though it will linger in their nervous systems for the rest of their lives. Some will not be so lucky. They will be victims of shingles, a painful, blistering rash that is triggered in adults when, for reasons unknown...
...Herpes simplex is almost always transmitted by intimate contact between infected and noninfected skin surfaces. This does not necessarily mean sex. Notes Kessler: "If a mother has a cold sore, she shouldn't be kissing her children or anyone else." Once inside, herpes reproduces by taking over the protein-producing apparatus of the host cell. Gross calls it "a biological coup...
Once the attack has been brought under control by the immunological system, the virus retreats. In oral herpes, which is generally caused by herpes simplex Type 1, it travels through nerve fibers into the trigeminal ganglia, a group of nerve cells located near the brain. In genital herpes, usually caused by Type 2, the virus withdraws to the sacral ganglia, nerve cell clusters near the spinal cord. Lodged in the nerve cells, the herpes simplex virus is beyond the reach of the body's immune system and enters a latent stage. This stage may last forever...