Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy beard for a shave. Meanwhile, some 600 University of Texas students rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast. "You said it, Joe!" shouted the cops. "Keep giving it to them...
Doctors are pretty well agreed that it is unwise to remove tonsils or adenoids while polio is rampant: within a month or two after such an operation, an invasion by the polio virus is more likely to result in the oftentimes fatal bulbar form of the disease. Last week the A.M.A. Journal called the attention of U.S. family doctors to growing evidence that polio victims who have lost tonsils, adenoids, or both, at any time in their lives, are more susceptible to bulbar and bulbo-spinal attacks...
...Journal conceded that the case is not yet proved. (For one thing, doctors can only guess at a possible explanation-that the tonsils and adenoids are part of a defensive mechanism against the invading virus.) But, the editors concluded, the evidence is enough to make surgeons pause once again before they cut out tonsils, and ask: "Is this operation really necessary...
Scare story of the week, aired by Gossipist Walter Winchell in his Sunday-night broadcast: "New polio vaccine . . . may be a killer . . . The U.S. Public Health Service tested ten batches . . . found that seven contained live, not dead, polio virus. It killed several monkeys...
...This year's mass trials are the greatest gamble in medical history," says a polio researcher, who, admittedly, favors a live-virus vaccine. But the gamble is sure to pay off one way or another. If the Salk vaccine is effective for even one season, 1954 will be a year of signal victory against polio; if it is not, little will have 3een lost and much knowledge gained for a new attack...