Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Planta's sales curves soared, Dutch doctors began getting patients troubled by a strange and painful itch. The symptoms, which doctors guessed were the result of a poison rather than a virus, were invariably the same: eczema-like pimples that appeared first on the feet but often spread across the body, temperatures ranging up to 106°. Only after treating thousands of cases did the doctors finally discover the one thing the victims seemed to have in common: all had tasted the new Planta...
...next summer, or fall at the latest, Americans will be able to take their polio vaccination in three month-apart swallows of live-virus vaccine instead of being dependent on the hypodermic needle for injections of the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service said he had been convinced that it is now possible to manufacture a live-virus vaccine "suitable for use in the U.S." Whether this unexpectedly abrupt decision was the result of mounting evidence of safety or of pressure on the Government by live-virus advocates...
...supplement at first, but not necessarily to replace, Dr. Jonas E. Salk's killed vaccine, the PHS Committee on Live Poliovirus Vaccine selected the live but attenuated strains developed by the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin. Whereas the Salk vaccine's virus particles are inactivated so that they cannot multiply, much less cause disease, the Sabin vaccine's viruses are expected to multiply. In this way, they cause a harmless infection. They do this in the digestive tract and render this part of the body an unsuitable seeding ground for future invasions...
...Congo nationalism blowing next door, the rulers of the sprawling, white-dominated Rhodesias were casting nervous glances at their own restive African populations. In copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, where apartheid-loving South African miners have settled by the thousands, the government has sought to ward off the independence virus among the blacks by marshaling troops along the Congo border, churning out emergency decrees and clapping African leaders into detention...
...Enders and Katz soon found that in monkeys Edmonston virus causes a mild infection that provokes the subject to make antibodies against the measles virus. And antibody preparations from monkeys' blood provided the first sure test for the presence of measles virus...