Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent Zigas, Estonian-born district medical officer, into the Fore country to investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...
...effective treatment for Asian influenza, to be taken like snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their blood is dried and ground into a powder to make the antiflu snuff...
Because the vaccine, containing 200 virus units per shot, has given protection to no more than 81% of those inoculated (in some tests, it is suspected, far fewer), Burney's advisers decided that it should be beefed up to 400 units per shot. Of the old vaccine, 45 million doses had been released by this week; November will see 27 million more produced. After that, double-strength vaccine will go on the market...
...Algiers with his Spanish mother. Working his way towards a philosophy degree at the University of Algiers, young Camus was invalided by a bout with TB, which may have stimulated his lifelong preoccupation with death. He recovered completely, as he did from a brief bout with the Communist virus contracted at about the same time...
Down at Soldiers Field this week it is not the opposing team that's disturbing the freshman football coaches, but a second, un-uniformed opponent: influenza. At yesterday's practice session, nine members of Coach Henry Lamar's freshman team were reported stricken with the virus, riddling the attendance roster with absent marks...