Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conducted almost identical tests and reached the same conclusion: there is a step missing in the widely held theory that polio passes directly from the alimentary tract to nerve fibers and thus to the nervous system. Drs. Bodian and Horstmann think there is a transient middle phase: that the virus goes from the digestive system to the blood stream, and from there, if not destroyed by antibodies, to the nervous system...
Chimps & Antibodies. Dr. Bodian began to suspect the old theory two years ago while analyzing a series of gamma globulin samples from human blood. He found that 80 to 90% of it contained antibodies that would attack and kill live polio virus. Such antibodies, he reasoned, could only come from a blood stream which had carried polio virus in the past...
...Bodian tested out his theory on the lab's chimpanzees and monkeys. A few days after he fed them live polio virus, he found traces of it in their stools. Within 8 to 15 days, the virus showed up in their blood streams. Playing and chattering happily, the monkeys showed no signs of polio during this period. But after a few more days the familiar symptoms appeared and paralysis began to set in. At Yale, Dr. Horstmann got similar results...
...nurse of the eight-bed infirmary; finds, for example, that one of the most persistent sources of complaints stems from girls who think they are sicker than they really are. The disappointment suffered by a girl who thinks she is seriously, ill and is told she has only a virus can be almost traumatic...
Miss Moore also defends the Center's policy of often making a girl move into the infirmary whether she herself wants to or not. The Center's policy on this has been that the place for a girl with a communicable virus is not in a dormitory, and that Radcliffe girls have a tendency to overwork themselves anyway...