Word: virus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families had no contact with each other. But the victims had one thing in common: all had handled or been close to hamsters from the same Florida distributor. On testing, at least one hamster belonging to each of eight affected families studied was found to have carried the LCM virus. The public health scientists urge other physicians to look for LCM when they encounter the same symptoms, especially if their patients own hamsters...
Sharing Infection. Taking regular samplings after the volunteers developed colds, the researchers found that the nasal drippings of aspirin users more often contained virus than those of the nonusers. The aspirin users were thus more likely to spread their viruses and the colds they can cause. Reason: though the aspirin did not cure the colds, it relieved the symptoms sufficiently to allow the victims to go about their daily routines...
...virus of violence has spread far beyond the player. The most chilling recent display was Boston Bruin Dave Forbes' attack on Minnesota North Star Henry Boucha. In that incident, Forbes jammed the end of his stick into Boucha's right eye, leaving Boucha, after surgery, with impaired vision. In an unprecedented criminal action against an N.H.L. player, Forbes was charged with aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon. His trial, now scheduled for May, could remove punishment for sport violence from the arena to the police and the courts...
Even before this somewhat over-optimistic statement appeared in an American Cancer Society ad, researchers were working to bring that day closer. In 1969 scientists succeeded in immunizing chickens against an avian-cancer virus. Now, two German researchers have gone even further by immunizing monkeys-which are several evolutionary steps closer to man -against a virus that causes cancer in primates. Their work raises hope that eventually similar vaccines can be developed for use in humans...
Doctors have long suspected that viruses, submicroscopic packets of nucleic acids similar to the DNA found in chromosomes, play a role in human as well as animal cancers. Dr. Sol Spiegelman, director of the Institute of Cancer Research at New York Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and one of the world's leading cancer virologists, points out that virus-like particles can be found in just about every human cancer. But proving that these particles cause the cancers has been more difficult. The cases against several suspect viruses have had to be dismissed for lack of scientific proof. There...