Word: virus
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...appears that the mosquito might also transmit the ailment. Studies by Rutgers University, the New York Blood Center and the New Jersey Medical School concentrated on tropical mosquitoes. After drawing blood from a person known to be a chronic carrier of hepatitis, the laboratory-raised insects retained the virus for three days and presumably could have transmitted the infection if allowed to attack another victim. The researchers know of no hepatitis cases that can be attributed directly to mosquitoes, but the source of the disease is often untraceable. The new findings are yet another reason for communities to conduct vigorous...
Drug addiction would seem to have little in common with smallpox. But according to Swedish Psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, the two scourges are remarkably similar. Though one is spread by example and one by a virus, both, he says, are contagious, epidemic diseases that can best be contained by quarantining their victims. To curb the spread of heroin and other hard-drug abuse, Bejerot proposes, the U.S. should establish compulsory, drug-free rehabilitation "villages" in secluded areas to keep addicts from infecting healthy nonusers...
GEORGE WALLACE. Far and away the most colorful candidate, he knows how to communicate with a certain kind of Southern folk. When the feisty little Governor furrows his brow and talks about "welfare loafers," "foreign hottentots," "busing to kingdom come" and candidates "doing the St. Virus's dance," he usually gets the guffaws he seeks. And not just in the South, either. Wallace fancies himself a national candidate with appeal to the population in many Northern states, like Indiana and Wisconsin. His youthful, photogenic wife Cornelia has even given his candidacy a patina of glamour. Nothing fancy 'bout...
...polio vaccines until now have been made from killed or attenuated viruses grown in cultures of cells taken from monkey kidneys. The process and the vaccines are highly effective, but manufacturers-and some physicians-fear that other viruses lurking in the monkey kidneys may slip into the vaccine with unpredictable effects on the human recipient. One stray monkey virus has turned up in some vaccine samples. Many virologists believe that it would be better to make the vaccine from viruses grown in human cells, specifically in a strain developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick and Dr. Paul S. Moorhead. Originally derived...
...return to action of Bartels, who has been out with a virus infection since last Monday's Cornell match, gave a real boost to the epee squad. Bartels figures prominently in coach Edo Marion's plans for Penn. Tatrallyay, still hobbled by a sore foot which he jammed in a dormitory door on Tuesday, came back to action to win two bouts. His return, and that of Bartels, bolstered the Crimson's chances for success against Penn today...