Word: virologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time and again the World Health Organization has declared smallpox extinct, only to have the ancient scourge reappear like a genie from a virologist's flask. Although the last known case of smallpox occurred in Somalia last October, the disease has not died out. An Englishwoman working at the University of Birmingham Medical School contracted it, presumably from virus escaping from a lab on a floor below. Before the case was diagnosed, a co-worker flew off to North Dakota on a holiday, thereby extending the smallpox alert...
...Algae. Now two University of California researchers have discovered something that seems to stop the tenacious virus dead in its tracks: extracts from common red seaweed that have been known since 1964 to have antibacterial and antifungal properties. Acting on a hunch, Virologist E. Frank Deig and Graduate Student Douglas Ehresmann decided to find out if the extracts might also be effective against viruses. Since 1974 they have examined for antiviral properties 29 varieties of red algae common to northern California waters. Each variety was washed in distilled water, dried, boiled and homogenized in a blender. A 1 % solution...
Critics of the inoculation program add that, despite a careful search, no cases have been found beyond the base. Nonetheless, says Virologist Edwin D. Kilbourne of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical School-and one of Ford's advisers-there is the distinct possibility that the swine virus has only gone into hibernation and may emerge again as next winter approaches...
...less effective against a genetic variant that appears later in the same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control: "Ford made the vaccine sound a little rosier than...
Rockefeller seemed to be a chief contender for the 1964 nomination-until he handed the conservatives the ammunition they needed. He divorced his wife of 31 years in 1962 and a year later married a younger woman, Margaretta Filler Murphy, whose former husband was a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. "Happy" Murphy was forced to give up custody of her four children after she married Rockefeller. (In a sign of changing U.S. mores, three of the foursome making up the new presidential and vice-presidential couples-Gerald Ford being the one exception-have been divorced...