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The liver disease known as hepatitis is a stubborn and increasingly common ailment. Infectious hepatitis, usually contracted from contaminated food or water, affected an estimated 100,000 people last year. The more virulent se rum hepatitis, which is transmitted by contaminated blood transfusions and in adequately sterilized hypodermic needles, affected...
Narrow Range. The most glowing testimonial to amantadine's value came, ironically, from the U.S.S.R.'s most famous vaccine developer, Dr. Anatoli A. Smorodintsev. The drug was given, he reported, in reduced doses of 100 mg. daily to 10,000 Russians in Leningrad, a flu epidemic area. Half...
One by one, the diseases that have crippled or slaughtered children through the ages are yielding to preventive vaccines - first smallpox, then diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, and most recently, measles. Last week the U.S. Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save...
The beginning of the end for rubella came in 1961, when two groups of investigators, one headed by Dr. Thomas Weller at Harvard, the other led by Dr. Paul D. Parkman at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, isolated the virus and devised ways of cultivating it in the...
They also developed a relatively simple blood test to show whether an individual has already had rubella and does not need the vaccine because he is immune.