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To any ex-G.I. who had sweated out a tropical assignment, there was a certain irony in the news: the Army had at last found a vaccine to combat dengue* fever, which had plagued 84,000 troops during the war years with rashes, headaches, fever and racking joint pains...
In Washington, the Commission on Neurotropic Virus Diseases reported that Army doctors first isolated the virus in Hawaii, developed the new vaccine in the U.S. from an extract taken from the brains of mice infected with the virus. An immunizing dose is extremely small: extract from the brain of a...
With a dentist's drill, he cut out a piece of the shell, inoculated the thin membrane inside with infectious material, sat back to study the results through a tiny "window" of melted paraffin and cover glass. The fowlpox virus throve. Subsequent tests with smallpox vaccine showed that one...
To a man who has made public health his life's work, experiments perilous are strictly a part of routine. In 1919 "Spenny" Spencer fought bubonic plague in New Orleans; in 1922 he went to Montana to tackle Rocky Mountain spotted fever, developed a vaccine which won him a...
Dr. Rolla Dyer, Institute director, said last week that research would continue for at least five years. First year's budget: $50,000. The research team, still unselected: a medical officer who is an immunologist, a researcher experienced in handling viruses, an epidemiologist, possibly a biochemist. As a start...