Word: virus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's durable Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, recovering from virus pneumonia and nervous exhaustion, started a vacation in Florida...
...Imported Virus. Sitting at the back of the room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
Many doctors believe that the common cold is caused by a virus. Dr. Leon T. Atlas of the U.S. Public Health Service has been so sure of it that since 1947 he has been growing a sub-microscopic bug that seemed to be the guilty party. At Bethesda, Md. he nurtured his virus first in the noses of willing victims, then in hen's eggs. The strain, known as MRI, be came the world's No. 1 biological curiosity...
Last week Dr. Atlas sadly announced that his virus had flown the coop. When, where or just how it got away, he could not say. There might have been a power failure at the incubators. Perhaps it just died...
Other experts who do not believe that colds are caused by a virus maintained a scientific calm over Dr. Atlas' loss...