Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under mild and smiling western skies, an epidemic of influenza flared last week in California, swept into Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Apparently the virus was brought from Hawaii, which had been hit by flu. Worried citizens feared a repetition of the great pandemic of 1918-19, but the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although...
...caused by a number of mysterious organisms. Only one group of these is known to science: Influenza Virus A, identified seven years ago. This is the virus now rampant on the West Coast...
Recently Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute made a vaccine from Influenza A and the virus which causes distemper in dogs. He hopes it will confer immunity for at least three months from all types of flu. Last week a test group of doctors and nurses in Los Angeles County General Hospital volunteered for vaccination. About 100,000 persons in selected communities throughout the U. S. have also been vaccinated. The next few weeks may provide a sure test of the vaccine, for the epidemic, already waning in the West, seemed to be moving east at week...
...recent report from Berlin alleged that the smallpox virus had been seen there for the first time...
...Jungeblut and Sanders are still nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...