Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time, medical researchers have found a drug that cures a disease caused by a true virus. Ophthalmologist Herbert E. Kaufman told a Manhattan symposium on virology last week that he has used the drug in 46 cases of a common infection of the eyes called herpetic keratoconjunctivitis. More than half of Dr. Kaufman's patients got such prompt benefit that their eyes escaped permanent damage, and in more severe cases the damage was limited...
...disease is the most frequent cause of eyeball-scarring infections in the U.S., and for no known reason it is becoming commoner. Its scars are the main reason for corneal transplants. Its cause is the versatile virus herpes simplex, which usually does no more harm than to touch off annoying fever blisters or canker sores in the mouth, but may cause blindness if it reaches the eyes, or even death if it attacks the brain...
...FUDR ), one of the drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...
...arrived Pakistanis and their contacts. Among them was Pathologist Ainley. He became the first patient to receive a new, experimental anti-smallpox drug-so new that doctors could not be sure how much to give him. But Dr. Ainley. 37, father of two, had been massively exposed to the virus. Last week he died...
...viruses isolated from selected patients and identified by complicated laboratory techniques have proved to be type B. instead of the Asian mutant of the type A group that caused the last notable epidemic two years ago. Though both virus types cause disease outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four...