Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual five thousand dollars, and very gratifyingly accumulated a surplus of several times that amount through persistent prudence. This surplus might easily, have been used to keep in operation a valuable public services, of long utility to scholars, but the responsible authorities were unable to withstand the hasty economy virus, and abolished the entire department. Against such abortive practices as these school conferences have every right to register on indignant objection...
Governor Roosevelt's political comeback after 1920 involved efforts even greater, because their object was less tangible, than his conquest of his lame legs. Years ago Louis McHenry Howe, his friend and adviser, had inoculated him with the White House virus. His election and re-election as Governor reawakened the Presidential fever, which burned with increasing intensity as the months at Albany wore successfully on and Herbert Hoover's prestige sank at Washington. Forgotten now is the fact that two years ago some of Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition...
...Carre announced but did not prove that distemper is caused by a filterable virus. Only animals which have never been exposed to disease are useful in experiment. Researchers Laidlaw & Dunkin bred their own pups, kept them in a rigidly sanitary compound. When, by inoculation, they could produce distemper in these dogs, they knew they had isolated its virus. It was easy then to prepare a protective vaccine. From the blood of dogs hyperimmunized by repeated injections of vaccine and virus, they developed a curative serum...
...keep a healthy dog from ever having distemper it is now necessary only to inject in it (preferably at the age of three months) two doses of Laidlaw-Dunkin vaccine, followed fortnight later by a dose of living virus. Preferred by some dog-owners because it involves only one trip to the veterinarian is a simultaneous inoculation with serum and virus. Theoretically sound, the practical worth of the simultaneous method has not yet been established. To cure sick dogs, an injection of serum during the early stages of the disease has proven effective...
Foaming at the mouth in dogs is not an invariable or even frequent symptom of rabies. It may be caused by a nervous disturbance, local inflammation, convulsions or running fits. But the rabies virus is transmitted by saliva and abundant salivation accompanies rabies, especially in the "dumb" phase when the lower jaw becomes paralyzed. Rabies is a much rarer disease than commonly supposed. Immunity to it is high in dogs and humans. The Pasteur treatment within five days of being bitten is highly effective protection. Detection of rabies in its early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious...