Word: virus
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Spotty by Cities. The geographic spottiness of the outbreaks confused public health authorities, and laboratory workers had the tedious job of identifying submicroscopic viruses in the laboratory to decide which of them were responsible for a particular patient's illness. The Asian A-2 strain of influenza virus has been identified in enough cases to convict it as the chief culprit in North Carolina's heavy outbreak of flu in January. The virus apparently spread to adjacent Virginia and South Carolina, and the University of Georgia had a local incident. Farther west, there were confirmed outbreaks at Great...
...York City, thousands of adults complained of flu-some of them rightly so, said the city health department after the presence of Asian virus had been confirmed. More than 100 children in one institution were affected. Predictably, some patients, who were already weak when the flu struck them down, contracted a second (bacterial) infection and pneumonia. As a result, the city's death rate rose, but not nearly as much as it had in the flu epidemics...
Partial Immunity. Most alarming to many doctors was a New York City outbreak of bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia among children. Some hospitals reported them twice as prevalent as ever before. And for this the Asian A-2 virus was not to blame. In many cases, the guilty microbe was one of the parainfluenza viruses...
...professors at the School of Public Health have received a $25,000 grant for research to develop a vaccine against the German measles virus they discovered last October...
Although discovery of a vaccine may still be several years away, research on the virus is "urgently needed," Neva said yesterday. "We're trying to discover the basic properties of the virus so that we or some other group can ultimately develop a vaccine...