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...health officers swung into action, checking turkey handlers for signs of ornithosis infection,* they found an alarmingly high rate of human illness. By last week they had recorded 60 suspected cases (though some could prove to be viral pneumonia). The farms turned up only seven cases of apparent ornithosis. The situation was worse at a rendering plant, where turkeys that had died of disease were shipped to be boiled down for tallow, feed and fertilizer. At this plant, out of 32 employees, 24 became ill, a dozen hospitalized. At other plants there were 29 cases. Two died, but State Epidemiologist...
...distressful ailments known to laymen as colds, grippe, flu and viral pneumonia make up a spectrum of illnesses for which doctors have long had fancier names but no cures and mostly so-so vaccines. Last week the U.S. Public Health Service announced a breakthrough in the campaign against these assorted "upper respiratory infections": a vaccine that appears to be effective against a common one, Type 3, in the grippe family...
First to fall ill was a Cleveland social worker. Her symptoms fitted infectious mononucleosis. also called glandular fever. This is a little-understood (presumably viral) infection that is maddeningly persistent but rarely fatal, sometimes runs like a plague through institutions. That is what it did. Nurses at the hospital were soon dropping like flies: ten one day, 15 another. With 56 nurses and 23 other staff members out. the famed old Royal Free had to shut its doors for the first time in its history, transferred most of its 240 patients to other hospitals...
...Eider Statesman's View on Research in Medicine;" Dr. Robert E. Gross, professor of Child Surgery, "Surgery for Atrial Septal Defects;" Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, "How to Pick a Smart Associate;" Dr. Thomas H. Weller, professor of Tropical Health, "Some of my Viral Friends," and Dr. Joseph A. Garland, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, "Some Accessory Factors in Medical Education...
...antibiotics are of no use against viruses. "Yet many physicians cannot refrain from scattering antibiotics far and wide because 1) the family expects it, 2) it won't do any harm. 3) it might do some good, or 4) you can't tell which infection is viral and which bacterial . . . The pressure to 'do something is always there, but it is often the truer test of the good physician to let nature take its course than to give treatment when treatment is not necessary...