Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Difficulty is that the poliomyelitis virus belongs to a family of at least three enteroviruses (so called because they can multiply in the gut) that sometimes cause no detectable illness, but at other times attack the nervous system. Doctors used to think that the only one of the three capable of causing paralysis was the virus of polio itself. This may not be so, say Hammon and colleagues. After studying six patients who were immunized against polio with gamma globulin in prevaccine days and then developed a paralytic disease that was mistaken for polio, they now suggest that the guilty...
...remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize...
...almost get away with this, but his approach seems to have infected a great part of the cast, and they cannot. Earle Edgerton and Lucienne Schupf, playing Cornwall and Regan, delivered even the most trivial lines with appalling vehemence. John Baker's Edgar suffered from the same virus--although he was excellent in the Poor Tom scenes--while Gerald Medearis' performance of Edmund was in the best tradition of Errol Flynn...
Still Scairt. Encouraged by this evidence that most of the trouble in colds is caused by the victims' permanently resident bacteria, which go on a rampage only after the virus has prepared the ground for them, Ritchie decided to try prevention with antibiotics, although their too-free use for colds is frowned upon. To minimize the risks of sensitizing the subjects to the drugs or helping resistant strains of microbes to emerge, he decided to use very small doses, in tablets to be sucked twice a day when the first sniffles appeared. Ritchie used the three closely related antibiotics...
...Though Johns Hopkins' Dr. Winston H. Price recently announced a vaccine that has shown promise against a virus strain prevalent in the Baltimore area (TIME, Sept...