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Recently Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute made a vaccine from Influenza A and the virus which causes distemper in dogs. He hopes it will confer immunity for at least three months from all types of flu. Last week a test group of doctors and nurses in...
One morning last week, Christmas shopping under a broiling sun, porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) saw a terrible sight in the Plaza de Mayo. About 1,000 people, many in pajamas and hospital gowns, milled before the Government House, chanting hoarsely: "The vaccine is ours!'' They...
New Vaccine. Like smallpox, influenza, infantile paralysis, etc., measles is a virus disease. It is caused by some organism too small to be seen microscopically. Commonly considered a trifling ailment of childhood, it often brings on ear infections, mastoiditis, bronchopneumonia. Measles can be a serious problem in wartime, for isolated...
Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether...
By many, Dr. Zinsser was regarded as the world's leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of...