Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research physician. As a doctor for personnel at New York Hospital-Cornell, she spends a lot of time telling nurses and student nurses when to stay in bed. But last week Dr. Diehl was dragging around after almost a month of futile attempts to cure herself of an unidentified virus...
Treacherous Delay. The disease is not influenza. The guilty microbe is usually called "virus x" by laymen, and that is as good a term as any, for the virus is truly an unknown quantity. It apparently comes in scores or possibly hundreds of forms...
...York City's currently unpopular brand of virus x is unusual mainly in its treacherous, delayed-fuse character. Dr. Diehl's case began in mid-February with a sore throat that burned all the way down into her chest. The next day she went to her office, but felt seedy, flushed and achy. It hurt her to move her eyes. Her temperature went up to 100.5. Dr. Diehl prescribed aspirin for herself...
Hard on Young Adults. Not until a week had passed, and the first severe symptoms had subsided, did the virus take its expected course and give Dr. Diehl a stuffy head and runny nose. She went back to work-imprudently-and then went back on tetracycline. It took another week for her to feel human again. Other victims who tried to shoulder a full work load too soon got into more serious trouble. One Manhattan physician developed a double viral pneumonia, with a fever of 104, and coughed up blood...
...facts are that some Salk shots have been worthless because the vaccine lost its potency with age, or because manufacturers, determined to make it safe, overdid the job of inactivating the virus. Despite this, overall effectiveness of Salk vaccine in preventing paralytic polio has ranged statistically from 75% to 90%. As Dr. Jonas E. Salk retorted: "The continued occurrence of polio is not due primarily to failure of the vaccine, but to failure to use it." But most authorities admit that for fuller protection, the U.S. needs a more potent vaccine, probably the Sabin oral type, which should be available...