Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most delegates favored a Salk-type (killed-virus) vaccine, but there was still some argument as to how best to make it safe. The U.S. uses the Mahoney strain, which is as safe as any other if actually killed, but is a vicious cause of paralysis if live virus accidentally gets through. Britain avoids Mahoney like the plague, uses a strain that causes less paralysis even if live particles get through. So does Europe generally...
...influenza, sweeping around the world (TIME, June 24), broke out in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...
...sweeping around the world from its spawning ground in Red China, the answer ordinarily might be yes. But thanks to modern medical detective work and the efforts of vaccinemakers, there is a good chance that the enemy can be held in check. To follow the advance of the virus, and the measures taken to outwit it. TIME gathered up-to-the-minute reports from a dozen nations in the Far East and Europe. See MEDICINE, The War on Mutant...
...combat new ravages by "the influence," a worldwide war is being waged this week in response to a call to arms from the Far East. Supreme headquarters is the World Health Organization in Geneva, which collects intelligence gleanings from around the globe, sends out captured specimens of the enemy virus to 46 nations. In more than a dozen laboratories- including those of the U.S. Public Health Service and major American drug firms-virologists are at work, with techniques as fine and occult as those of cryptographers. Their purpose: to establish the virus' precise identity, pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses...
...Simple. The first breakthrough came in 1933. when a virus, soon dubbed influenza type A, was convicted as the cause of one epidemic. It became clear that type A was likely to take the warpath every two years or so, with severe epidemics at four-to seven-year intervals. A vaccine could be prepared to give immunity lasting up to two years. In 1940 came the discovery of type B virus, and the realization that it belonged to a different immunologic family-vaccination against type A gave no immunity against B. and vice versa. Later came recognition of type...