Word: virally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug, Du Font's amantadine hydrochloride, is virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
Australia's perennial problems with rabbits seemed all but over in 1950, when scientists deliberately introduced myxomatosis, a mosquito-carried viral disease that quickly killed off as much as 90% of the nation's 500 million furry, long-eared pests. Since the great epizootic, though, both the virus and the rabbits have undergone mutations; many of the new strains of the myxomatosis virus are relatively harmless, and new generations of animals have developed immunity to even the more virulent strains. As a result, Australia's rabbit population has doubled in the oast several years...
...infinite patience and persistent good humor, Dr. Rous extended his work to other kinds of tumors in different species of fowl. A quarter-century later, the late Dr. Richard E. Shope followed his lead and produced virus-induced tumors in rabbits. By now, half a dozen mammalian species carry viral cancers in the laboratory...
Western equine encephalitis (or "WEE") was so named when it appeared that its chief victims were horses. But among 297 cases of human viral encephalitis in 1965, the U.S. Communicable Disease Center attributed no fewer than 172 to WEE, with four deaths. The outbreak reached epidemic proportions in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and Wyoming...
...mechanical aids after the EEG has gone flat, says Surgeon Charles F. Zukoski III of the VA Hospital in Nashville, he runs the risk of letting the machine become his master. Slowly but inexorably, the blood pressure will fall until it can no longer support the kidneys or other viral organs. "This," says Dr. Zukoski, "is an agonal type of death. We can carry the prolongation of so-called life...