Word: virality
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...cancer villains are viruses, submicroscopic packets of nucleic acids that can invade cells and take over their genetic machinery. Using immunological techniques to identify antigens (the substances that trigger the body's defenses), Dr. Donald Morton of the University of California at Los Angeles has found signs of viral activity in human sarcomas, or cancers of connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus...
Williams is eager to try the machine on more patients, who will not be hard to come by. Many victims of viral hepatitis and of adverse reactions to anesthetics or other drugs develop hepatic coma. The condition may also be brought on by drug abuse; 1,500 persons were admitted to English hospitals in 1971 for liver poisoning caused by Paracetamol, a painkilling tablet...
Looking physically fit, Nixon emerged last week from the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda and his brief bout with viral pneumonia...
When Dr. Walter R. Tkach, Nixon's personal physician since 1969, concluded that his patient was suffering from viral pneumonia, he knew that it might take several days for lab tests to determine whether the infecting agent was Mycoplasma or a true virus. He decided to administer an antibiotic immediately on the theory that it might help. Though Tkach declined to identify the medicine, it was probably erythromycin or one of the tetracyclines, which are frequently prescribed for Mycoplasma pneumonia. From X rays, he concluded that only the lower lobe of Nixon's right lung was inflamed...
...viral pneumonias, the prescriptions and prognoses are clear: analgesics (probably aspirin) to control fever and relieve headache, aching muscles and chest pain; bed rest; and lots of fluids. The President's fever of 101°-102° was neither unusual nor threatening. Still, the disease is considered serious enough for a man of his age to require the seven to ten days in hospital that Nixon was told to expect...