Word: viral
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...York Times first reported last week, the CIA is investigating the possibility that a Russian scientist, Nelli Maltseva, ferried a nasty strain of smallpox from the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow to Iraq in 1990. She died two years ago.The allegation caused quite a kerfuffle in Russia. Maltseva's daughter Natalia, a cardiologist, has threatened to sue the newspaper for having "blackened her mother's reputation." The institute's current director, Vitali Zverev, says the last time Maltseva handled smallpox was in 1982, which was also the last time she traveled abroad--to Finland, not Iraq...
...Viral Infection
...addition, the California-based Annenberg Center for Health Science sponsored a special forum to examine the national immunization policy, vaccines that are currently available and emerging viral threats...
DIED. ROLAND HANNA, 70, delicate, ceaselessly versatile jazz pianist; of a viral infection of the heart; in Hackensack, N.J. The Detroit native, who was knighted by the Liberian government and went by the title "Sir," studied classical piano before joining Benny Goodman's band in 1958. He went on to work with such diverse musicians as Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan and Coleman Hawkins...
...that case, Mayer said, the illnesses which afflicted dozens of students last winter were not conclusively linked to HUDS, and are believed to have been viral infections...