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...there is a high probability that it is not true. Few scientists appreciate the aptness of this more than Dr. Albert Sabin, 68, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine. Eighteen months ago, Sabin declared triumphantly that he and a colleague had found convincing evidence that the ubiquitous herpes simplex viruses, which cause cold sores and genital infections, also cause human cancers. Since then, Sabin has been unable to reproduce the earlier laboratory findings. As a result, he is publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a paper retracting his claims against the herpes viruses...
Sabin based his original indictment on research that he and Dr. Giulio Tarro, 36, of the University of Naples had conducted between 1967 and 1973. The study, signed jointly by Sabin and Tarro, found antibodies produced in the body in reaction to the presence of the herpes simplex Type I and Type II viruses in patients with cancers of the lip, mouth, nose and throat, kidney, bladder, prostate, cervix and vulva. It turned up no trace of the viruses in patients with 28 other malignancies, or in patients without cancer...
...students for two to ten times its former rental. In addition to leaving less available family units in Cambridge, it floats up "property values" and hence increases tax rates for owners of single or two-family dwellings. Rising property values and survival wage demands have forced traditional Cambridge employers (Simplex Wire, Lever Bros. etc.) to leave the city, eliminating most of the unskilled and semi-skilled job market, and commuting costs to the budget of local working people. Harvard has become by far Cambridge's largest employer, adding to the conflict of interest in local politics. The bulk...
...herpes family of viruses may play a role in human cancer (TIME, April 23) was heightened even more last week by the revelations of a noted medical researcher. Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine, told the National Academy of Sciences that the herpes simplex Type I virus (responsible for cold sores) may also cause cancers of the lip, mouth and throat, while the herpes Type II virus (which causes genital infections and has already been associated with cancer of the cervix) should also be considered suspect in other cancers of the genitourinary tract...
Although there was until recently no really effective treatment for herpes simplex infections of either type, there are now several promising techniques. Houston's Dr. Troy Felber has found that painting herpes simplex sores with light-sensitive dyes and then exposing them to light from a fluorescent tube cuts the healing time* by 50%. Drs. G. Robert Nugent and Samuel Chou of the West Virginia University Medical Center recently reported that applications of ordinary ether or chloroform will clear up herpes sores in as little as two days, apparently by altering the virus so as to make it more...