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...case of Mike Kasperak differed from that of other transplant patients in the underlying cause of his heart disease. Kasperak, 54, was stricken with a severe viral inflammation of the heart (viral myocarditis) ten years ago. Recently the inflammation had not been active, but the heart had become enlarged, more scarred and fibrous. Kasperak (pronounced Ka-spair-ak) quit his job as a Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what...
...viruses from multiplying in millions of cells and causing severe illness. It is effective against the whole catalogue of viruses, but its protection may last only two or three weeks. Nevertheless, researchers believed that if they could help the system produce interferon even before exposure, they could prevent many viral invasions from ever becoming established and causing illness...
Cryotherapy - literally, treatment by extreme cold - is particularly valuable in ophthalmology. It has already destroyed eye tumors, removed cataracts and sealed lesions in the retina. Now Dr. John Bellows of Northwestern University reports that it is highly effective in the treatment of a viral infection of the eye called herpetic keratitis...
Foot-and-mouth disease is one of the most fiercely contagious of viral infections-for beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs. But even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter how closely he may have worked with the afflicted livestock. To Bachelor Bob Brewis, who lived on his brother's farm in Yetlington, a tiny village in England's North Country, a doctor's suggestion that he might have Britain's first human case of foot...
...examined me, he found some blisters on my hands and in my mouth. I was banged into a hospital at Newcastle for a week, but there was nothing much the matter with me." Nor was there anything much the doctors could do. There is no effective treatment for the viral disease, but nature's own healing power soon cured Brewis...