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...mouth disease has been stamped out, thanks to the Department of Agriculture's vigilant policies against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have developed vaccines against the viral disease, but these carry a risk of actually infecting the inoculated animal because they sometimes contain live viruses...
...down to luck or fortune form more coherent overall patterns; large historical forces become discernible. But entire societies should not mock luck either. The classic Mayan civilization disappeared so strangely, so precipitously, that some massive stroke of bad luck must have been at work-a sudden plague, say, a viral riot...
...Sinsheimer admits there is probably no turning back. The genie is out of the bottle. A great majority of scientists also point out that no gene-spliced monsters, bacterial or otherwise, have yet escaped from the laboratory. What is more, there is a world of difference between splicing a viral gene or two into a humble bacterium and redesigning the complex genes of man, which now seems quite remote...
...with bacterially produced interferon, developed at Genentech. Interferon is part of a natural defense system against such viral diseases as influenza and hepatitis; it also seems to act against certain types of cancer, particularly cancer of the breast and the lymph nodes. But to date only extremely small quantities of it have been available, all painstakingly collected from blood cells and other human tissue. Relatively few patients, only several hundred out of the hundreds of thousands of cancer victims who might benefit from interferon, have been receiving the drug. Natural interferon is very costly (up to $150 for a daily...
Today's events include some of Harvard's best. Last year saw the Crimson take four of the top six and five of the top 12 places in the 500-yd. freestyle. And all with Bobby Hackett suffering from a viral infection. This year a healthy Hackett figures to win the event, and he could find the friendly faces of teammates Larry Countryman, Tim Maximoff, Ted Chappell, and Andy Lockman in the finals...