Word: virus
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...patient investigation supported by funds from the U.S. Army, a South Korean medical researcher may have solved the mystery of a disease that last year afflicted thousands of Asians, including at least 800 South Koreans. Dr. Lee Ho Wang says that the dangerous ailment is caused by an elusive virus borne by a tiny Korean field mouse that lives in mountainous areas. If Lee's discovery is confirmed, it should not only help doctors make a faster diagnosis of the disease but also pave the way for the development of a vaccine against...
David Baltimore, S.D., Nobel-prizewinning virus and cancer researcher. Nancy Roman, S.D., chief astronomer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...President's medical advisers say the newly detected swine flu strain is similar to the lethal virus that caused some 20 million deaths worldwide during the 1918-19 global flu pandemic. The new strain showed up at Fort Dix, N.J., where a 19-year-old Army recruit died of flu-related pneumonia in February. Investigators also found direct evidence of swine flu in eleven other men and signs of exposure to the virus-determined by the presence in the blood of antibodies to the new strain-in 273 others. Yet a subsequent check of 50 men hospitalized...
Critics of the inoculation program add that, despite a careful search, no cases have been found beyond the base. Nonetheless, says Virologist Edwin D. Kilbourne of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical School-and one of Ford's advisers-there is the distinct possibility that the swine virus has only gone into hibernation and may emerge again as next winter approaches...
...that would exceed even the record-breaking 100 million oral doses of polio vaccine given during a year and a half in the early '60s-and asked Congress to allocate $135 million in federal "seed" money for production of a new vaccine that is effective against the swine virus, if indeed it reappears in epidemic proportions. To supply enough shots for every American by early next winter-before the onset of the new flu season-drug companies will have to mobilize almost immediately, ordering, among other things, millions of fertilized eggs in which the vaccine will have...