Word: virus
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...epidemic of rubella, or German measles, was a national disaster. Rubella virus is as deadly as thalidomide for the unborn, and the epidemic left an estimated 30,000 babies marred for life by cataracts, deafness, heart malformations or mental retardation. Ever since, virologists have been racing against time, trying to perfect and test an effective rubella vaccine that can be marketed soon enough to avert the next predictable epidemic, expected in early 1970. Last week it appeared certain that the U.S. would have at least three different vaccines in time...
...more than 20,000 persons and satisfies the three main requirements: 1) although it causes a mild rash in a few vaccinated children, it has no serious side effects; 2) it produces good antibody levels, and therefore immunity, in more than 90% of those vaccinated; 3) the weakened virus in the vaccine does not spread to people who come into contact with those who receive it. HPV-77 is also the only vaccine so far put to the test of a major natural epidemic, which erupted on Taiwan last winter. It protected 93% or more of Taiwanese grade-school boys...
Nose Droos. Even so, Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute noted at a Manhattan conference last week that while the virus in HPV77 is attenuated, it is still alive. This, he said, would be the first live-virus vaccine against any disease ever licensed to be given by injection. (The Sabin live-virus polio vaccine is taken by mouth.) Plotkin also noted that some lines of HPV-77 are grown in cultures of monkey-kidney cells, which may be contaminated by other, and dangerous, viruses. Not surprisingly, Wistar has its own vaccine, also live-virus...
Starting sophomore end Bruce Freeman has recovered from a virus and will hold down the right end spot. Yovvy also expects Richie Szaro to return and give the backfield more depth...
Even on the basis of the FBI figures, the notion that a virus of violence has suddenly infected a peaceful society is simply not true. During the 1950s, when reporting of offenses was less comprehensive than in the computerized '60s, the FBI reported a 66% increase in crime, taking population growth into consideration. The comparable figure for the '60s so far is 71%. While Nixon and Wallace charge that Supreme Court decisions bearing on eliciting confessions and the suspect's right to counsel have hindered law enforcement, studies conducted by the Los Angeles district attorney...