Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached the point where effective authority is required to prevent it at its source, rather than rely on palliative measures to cope with detergent-filled lakes and rivers, virus-spreading streams, or mass fish kills caused by chemical waste and pesticides...
Live & Dead. Hope for wholesale measles shots has just been boosted by the announcement that Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Division of the Dow Chemical Co. has now begun to market a one-shot vaccine that is expected to give lifelong immunity. The virus used in the new vaccine is derived from the famed Edmonston strain used by Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John F. Enders (TIME Cover, Nov. 17, 1961), but new research has added many advantages. When the attenuated virus in Enders' vaccine remained strong enough to give the required immunity, it was also strong enough to give many children...
Never Twice. The Pitman-Moore vaccine offers a way out of the dilemma. After nurturing scores of "generations" of Enders' bug, Dr. Anton J. F. Schwarz now grows the final product in cultures of cells from virus-free eggs. When injected into a child, it causes no rash or fever; the Public Health Service's hypercritical Division of Biologies Standards is satisfied that the vaccine contains no contaminating viruses. New York University's Dr. Saul Krugman reports that 2� years of testing indicate that one injection confers just as solid immunity as the natural disease. "That means it should...
...baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude?can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers say, "our two patients could easily have had opportunity for infection from pigeons, which were often just outside the window of their upper-story room." If a virus like that of psittacosis can be proved to initiate cell...
...Except for chimpanzees, animals do not catch human colds. Cats get dreadful colds, and some from rhinoviruses-"but cat rhinoviruses, not human ones." > Chilling has little if anything to do with a person's developing a cold. Presumably resistance to the virus is a factor, but how it works is not known. > Some colds are not catching at all, and no one knows how they get started. Others are most catching in the early stages (almost the only item of folklore confirmed by scientific research). They are spread by sneezing and coughing, though a handkerchief promptly and properly used...