Word: virus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canines may be the culprits carrying a slow virus...
Exceedingly few people develop herpes simplex encephalitis, a brain inflammation produced by the same virus that causes, among other things, the common cold sore. Those who do are unfortunate indeed. Fever, recurrent headaches, personality changes and seizures often afflict the victim, though the disease can be definitely confirmed only by brain biopsy. Once it starts, moreover, it steadily gets worse. People with herpes encephalitis almost invariably become comatose, then die; survivors nearly always suffer brain damage, frequently so severe as to require institutionalization...
...other reality is just as disturbing. Without legal and affordable abortion, many lives in progress are hopelessly ruined; the unwanted children very often grow up unloved, battered, conscienceless, trapped and criminal. A whole new virus of misery breeds in the accidental zygotes...
...doctors point out that European doctors have long known of a tick-borne infection called erythema chronicum migrans; it is characterized by a similar reddening, although it has so far never been associated with arthritis. Now the Yale researchers will concentrate on finding the culprit, presumably a tick-borne virus. That should lead to a better understanding of-if not a cure for -Lyme arthritis and also shed light on other forms of the painful disease...
...public health department: "Too often the disease is looked upon as a sickness all children once had, as a kind of joke." Unfortunately, measles is no laughing matter. While the overwhelming majority of victims recover in a week to ten days, some develop pneumonia or encephalitis. If the measles virus spreads to the brain, it can cause convulsions, coma and brain damage, and sometimes death...