Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed, according to Dr. Paul H. Means '17, the State Board of Health has pronounced this to be a part of a virus infection that has had sporadic outbreaks all over Massachusetts for the last two months, and that it is not attributable to the food...
...seems that even TIME is becoming infected with the accursed virus of jingoism, and its twin brother, militarism...
...season of infantile paralysis, Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan, one of the vaccine inventors, disclosed a simple, speedy test of a child's susceptibility to the disease. A mouse and a special filtrate, which any careful bacteriologist can make with a few mice and some potent infantile paralysis virus, are all a doctor needs...
Only 55 years ago great, meticulous Louis Pasteur (1822-95) began to realize that for every infectious disease there is a specific microorganism. That year chicken cholera was Pasteur's obsession. Dishes of the virus lay all around his Pans laboratory. Then, in the midst of his research he dashed away on a vacation. The virus died, but Pasteur did not know that...
Upon his return Pasteur injected some of the dead virus into a healthy chicken. Nothing happened. Astonished, he prepared a fresh batch of virulent virus and injected it into the same chicken. Nothing happened-because the erroneous mnoculation with dead virus had immunized the chicken against cholera...