Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases, said Dr. Kandle, could be traced to seepage from septic tanks; probably a majority were spread from person to person within families. But when patients were asked what they had eaten 30 to 60 days earlier (because the virus plays possum for that length of time), a surprising number mentioned clams on the half-shell. The raw-clam fanciers, suggested Dr. Kandle, might account for as many as 250 cases...
Nothing makes a clam happier than sewage seepage, but it might also make him a carrier of the hepatitis virus. New Jersey began checking its clam diggers to make sure that they were not harvesting in polluted waters...
...Huppert began with the generally accepted fact that a normal cell contains chemically coded information-in ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-which determines how it reproduces itself. But, he suggested, ''a cell may acquire some wrong genetic information,' perhaps through the entry of a virus into the cell. The virus need not necessarily multiply within the cell; all that is necessary is for a piece of the virus' RNA or DNA to be substituted for part of the cell's normal nucleic acid...
...Virus x seems to be hardest on young adults and those in middle life. The virologists checked everything in their culture tubes and were still baffled. About the only advice doctors could feel certain of was: do not go back to work too soon...
...virus x there is no vaccine, no specific drug treatment-only rest, warmth, humidity, a soft diet and lots of fluids...