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...journals Nature and Science, a taxonomy group subcommittee proposed a third name, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and urged scientists to adopt it. Because of the pending legal actions, Gallo refused to endorse the change, although Montagnier signed the statement. Nonetheless, Subcommittee Chairman Harold Varmus, a leading California virologist, expressed hope that the decision would help defuse "the tense legalistic atmosphere" that has tarnished AIDS research. "The emotional flavor of this branch of virology," he wryly concluded, "is not quite what it should...
...still capable of triggering production of the antibodies that make swine immune. While the viruses in other vaccines are rendered harmless by conventional methods, the Omnivac viruses are altered by recombinant-DNA techniques--in other words, by genetic engineering, or gene splicing. Saul Kit, the Baylor University biochemical virologist who redesigned the virus, points out that existing pseudorabies vaccines, which raise no alarms, have also been produced by what is really a form of genetic engineering. One older vaccine, he explains, was developed by growing the pseudorabies virus in chick cells for tens of thousands of generations. In the process...
DIED. John Franklin Enders, 88, Nobel-prizewinning virologist, philosopher of natural science and teacher to generations of experts in infectious disease at Harvard University (1929-77), whose techniques for growing viruses outside the human body and attenuating them so that safe, effective vaccines could be created led to the near eradication of many childhood diseases, including measles and polio, in developed countries; in Waterford, Conn...
Public health officials sought to quell the growing panic. "The parents were concerned that their children would get some horrible, disfiguring disease," says Dr. Steven Strauss, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least...
...drug, marketed by Burroughs Wellcome Co., under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...