Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal...
Antibody tests have proved that Dr. Grace's cancer-causing agent is not the polyoma virus. The answers to what it is and whether it will lead to protection against human cancer may take years (and millions of mice) to find...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught biology and zoology (1907-38) at Yale; in New Haven, Conn...
Physical difficulties may hamper the Crimson. Fullback Lanny Keyes, whose booming kicks and heads were a key factor in the varsity's fine defensive showing Saturday, is out with tendon or ligament trouble in his leg, and Hedreen, an inside, has been ailing all week with a virus...
There is very little doctors can do about it. One promising vaccine against "B"-type viruses developed at Johns Hopkins University (TIME, March 4, 1957) has not yet proved its worth; the few vaccines against "A" encephalitis forms are still laboratory curiosities. Nor have health authorities often had success in wiping out the mosquito vectors. In some cases where encephalitis-carrying insects in a given area were wiped out, it is suspected that the virus simply sought out new vectors...