Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Electrical Society's science forum. The others: flea-bitten Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer, discoverer of the cause of typhus fever in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 7); tick-bitten Dr. Roscoe Roy ("Spenny") Spencer, who invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell growth that last week he dared to hint that just around the biological corner lie chemical cures for cancers...
...Washington's Naval Hospital. One of his caged fleas carried a virulent form of typhus fever which had almost killed him, had kept him bed-ridden for a month. But he was contented. He had demonstrated something more about typhus fever. In Europe the body louse carries the virus of typhus fever, transmits a form of the disease which kills 22% to 65% of its victims. In the U. S. there has been a so-called mild form of typhus with a 2% mortality.* Dr. Dyer was instructed by Director George Walter McCoy of the National Institute of Health...
...healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds. In the spring the mailman went to the first ship for mail. A few hours later he was sniffling. Next day everybody in Spitsbergen had a cold, which suggested again that the virus which causes colds travels swiftly...
...directly by a filterable virus (probably) which attacks the central nervous system...
...Research on the Common Cold will have concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations: the common cold is not caused by that, that or the other. The one positive result is the certainty that colds are caused by a filtrable virus transmitted from person to person through nose & throat. Ground, cleared of weedy hypotheses and surmises, may give results this year...