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Crewdson delineates the challenges for scientists. AIDS clearly had epidemic potential, as cases mounted without anyone understanding how AIDS spread. Whoever could figure out what caused the disease and how it was transmitted would gain prime-time media coverage. Whoever could figure out a way to test for the disease...
Your article "Vaccines Stage A Comeback" [STAYING HEALTHY, Jan. 21] summed it up perfectly: "Vaccines are the great prevention success story of modern medicine." Rather than a fading technology, vaccines are a present wonder and, with new biotechnology developments, will help conquer a wider range of infectious diseases. A recent...
BRITAIN Another Health Scare The government faced a public health crisis as an outbreak of measles in south London indicated that parents were not having their children inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. A controversial 1998 study linked the vaccine with autism, though more recent research disputes...
Flu season is a scary time for asthmatics. They believe--correctly--that the disease can be especially dangerous for them. But many also believe--incorrectly--that the flu shot itself can trigger an asthma attack, which is one of the reasons 9 out of 10 asthmatics pass on getting an...
Just two decades after it was declared gone for good, this deadly scourge is back--in our fears if not in fact. Anthrax was bad enough, but smallpox in the hands of terrorists could make a far more devastating bioweapon. There is no effective treatment for the disease, and because...