Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday Morning Virus? Emotional factors may be as potent as a virus in causing the common cold, said Virologist Robert J. Huebner of the U.S. Public Health Service. Volunteers, wrote Dr. Huebner in Public Health Reports, got equally severe cold symptoms regardless of whether they received nose drops containing viruses, or drops of harmless, virus-free material...
...Psychological tests showed a rather significant association of high gullibility scores with complaints of upper respiratory illness," said Dr. Huebner. "Our findings indicate that susceptibility to suggestion represents a more powerful inciter to 'runny' noses than any virus which we have as yet discovered." Dr. Huebner noted that a smaller ratio of workers pile up most of the absenteeism laid to colds. Also, colds are commonest on Monday mornings. "Perhaps there is a 'Monday morning' virus." said Dr. Huebner, "but I wonder whether it could be grown even with modern tissue cultures or that miracle drugs...
...pneumonia, then went to bed for eight months with rheumatic fever. In his early teens it was a broken ankle and acute appendicitis. A $60,000 Indian bonus baby at 19, he has not had a healthy summer since. But a dislocated collarbone, pneumonia again, a severe virus attack and a spastic colon could not keep him from running up a 38-20 won-lost record and a total of 547 strike-outs in 512 innings in the big leagues...
...legal issues last week. ¶ Palmer Lee Martin, 41, filed a $300,000 damage suit in Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit charges that he was unable to work for nine months, spent six months under treatment at Warm...
...Lilly & Co., which made two-thirds of all vaccine previously used, is only now getting all its virus pots cooking again. Other manufacturers are in similar plight. Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service suggested limiting shots to the under-20 age group, plus pregnant women, until the shortage eased. This would cut the number of unvaccinated eligibles to 23 million. But most city and county health departments could not meet even this goal: from Massachusetts to Illinois, Colorado and California, would-be vaccinees were all set to roll up their sleeves only to be told, "Sorry...