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This time trouble had come in an unexpected form. The deadly bacillus was not a familiar strain of Vibrio cholerae (or Vibrio comma, from its shape), for which a vaccine of sorts is available. Instead, it was a strain of the El Tor group of vibrios,* one which had previously...
Latter-Day O'Learys. At first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary. A waiter who had just been inoculated against hay fever had...
The rinderpest is done for in Nigeria; U.S.-supplied vaccine, shot into 10 million cows, saw to that. In Peru, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, 500,000 school kids get a glass of milk each morning. Fishermen in Kenya are content: the U.S. gave them new boats so they could catch...
...trouble with many live-virus vaccines is that the viruses of which they are made multiply in the body in such away as to cause illness. As a result, some measles vaccines produce what seems like a mild case of measles; some polio vaccines may make the vaccinee infectious to others. Virologists have long sought a way to deliver the live (though possibly weakened) virus of a vaccine into a part of the body where it will cause neither symptoms nor infection, but will still do its job of triggering antibody formation...
Despite overoptimistic claims, the new vaccine has no immediate bearing on the common cold, which is caused by a multitude of viruses that are only distantly, if at all, related to adenovirus 4. What is hopeful, for possible vaccines against many other virus diseases, is the ingenious technique of roundabout...