Word: virus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Leiter Cup series yesterday the Craigies defeated the Harvard Square A. A. by the score of 7 to 4 and the Dink Stovers defeated the Grave Diggers, 6 to 2. The Ultra Virus will play the Craigies on the second team diamond today...
...mode of infection of Infantile Paralysis has been discovered by officers of the Bussey Institute and of the Medical School working in collaboration with the Massachusetts State Board of Health. It has been found that the ordinary stable fly or Stomoxys Calcitrans transmits the virus of the disease. The discovery is a brilliant example of modern experimentation...
...next step was to see by experiment whether the stable fly could carry the virus. The investigation was transferred to the Medical School, where it proceeded under the charge of Professor M. J. Rosenau. Working with Mr. Brues, he infected monkeys with the disease by injection, and then allowed them to be bitten by the stable flies. These flies then bit other monkeys, and after various difficulties, it was found that in six cases out of twelve the animals were infected. The principle was now confirmed by further experimentation at Washington and the proof that the fly carries the virus...