Word: virality
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...arrived from Switzerland in July 1956. Lindenmann, now head of experimental microbiology at the University of Zurich, stayed in London only a year. But it was time well spent. Over a cup of tea that August, the two scientists discovered a mutual fascination with a biological phenomenon known as viral interference. It was so called because doctors had observed that a victim of one kind of virus-caused illness practically never came down with another viral disease at the same time; the presence of one kind of virus seemed to inhibit infection by any other...
...prescription: a combination of ingredients. Microbes may and do cause disease, he concedes. But there is increasing evidence that the mind can affect the body in such a way as to make a viral victory more likely. As W.H. Auden tersely observes of cancer...
Several researchers at Harvard affiliated Beth Israel in Boston are working to develop a drug effective in the treatment of cold sores and other viral infections of the herpes variety...
...colleagues at the hospital who are studying the effects of the drug acyclovir on cold sores, said yesterday they will administer the drug in ointment form to 50 of the 100 volunteers. The other 50 will receive a placebo or dummy drug that does not contain the anti-viral agent found in acyclovir...
...nice to have teammates to back you up," Crimson superstar Bobby Hackett said after his disappointing fourth place finish in the 500-yd. freestyle. A viral infection bothered Hackett for the second Easterns in a row, but fellow distance-men Larry Countryman, Tim Maximoff and Ted Chappell took up the slack to the tune of second, fifth and sixth places, respectively...