Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, doctors don't know if there going to be a flu epidemic. And, if the indirect statistical predictions for an epidemic are correct, there is still no way of telling which of the 30 different types of flu virus will attack Cambridge...
Antibiotics effectively attack most bacteria, but in fighting disease-causing pests that are smaller than bacteria-chiefly the viruses-the wonder drugs have chalked up a record of failure. Last week, concluding a series of three articles in the A.M.A. Journal, a group of Navy doctors reported on an antibiotic that works well against what seems to be a form of virus disease. The antibiotic is Declomycin, a close relative to aureomycin. The disease is viral pneumonia...
Chasing a Bug. For years, researchers have been trying to isolate and assess the role of PAP viruses. In 1944, Harvard Virologist Monroe Eaton found in the sputum of some pneumonia patients an agent that caused PAP. So far, researchers have not been able to prove for sure that "Eaton Agent" is a virus. It goes through fine filters and thus seems to fall in the sub-bacterial size-range of the viruses. Like some other viruses, it can be grown in chick embryos and hamsters. Using new fluorescent techniques, researchers have traced the antibodies that are formed to fight...
...healthy bats were rabid too. At first, the danger from rabid bats seemed small because bat bites are a rare problem among humans. Then in 1956 a Texan who had been banding bats went partially blind, had convulsive seizures when he tried to drink water, and soon died. Rabies virus was found in his brain. In 1959 a California mining engineer who had been searching caves in Mexico and Texas for deposits of bat guano got sick and died after suffering nausea, hydrophobia, foaming at the mouth and extreme anxiety-the characteristic symptoms of rabies. Both men were sure that...
When famed Harvard Nobel Laureate John Franklin Enders announced at a Manhattan meeting three years ago that he had isolated measles virus, his fellow virologists stood up and cheered. It would not be long, they hoped, before a vaccine could be developed to wipe out a disease that sends one child in 4,000 to institutions for the feebleminded. But the first live virus vaccine developed by Enders left much to be desired; four of five children got severe fevers, roughly half developed a rash. Last week, after much toil by Enders and others, a group of Pennsylvania physicians...