Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary of State James E. Webb, is seriously considering leaving the department himself. In three years, Businessman Webb, a 45-year-old North Carolinian, overhauled the State Department's administration, made sense out of the old welter of overlapping bureaus and responsibilities. Ailing since an attack of virus pneumonia several months ago, he wants a rest...
...only thing that makes a dogbite (or the bites of other animals*) different from an ordinary wound, says Dr. Vinnard, is the possible presence of rabies virus. It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap & water than by nitric acid or any other of the cauterizing agents. As for leaving the wound open, this increases the chance of disfigurement...
...hunting rabbits. With trap and snare they were also trying to catch rats and mice. There was nothing frivolous about this: the soldiers were medical corpsmen, assigned to help run down an enemy which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June: the virus, or something like a virus, that causes epidemic hemorrhagic fever...
...better care than the first Japanese victims: infusions of glucose and vitamins, and sometimes ACTH or cortisone for shock. Transfusions of blood from convalescent patients, given to victims in the early stages, seem to speed their recovery. This strengthens the belief that the fever is caused by a virus, and that a convalescent's blood contains antibodies manufactured during the illness...
...another, the toll among U.S. troops has been held down to 25 deaths among 187 proved cases (there may have been almost 500 cases, all told, with many unidentified). The medics hope that their hunters and trappers will bring in samples of the responsible virus in the rabbits and vermin, and in the mites which infest them. After that, work can begin on developing a protective vaccine. Meanwhile, to front-line troops the season's first bitter cold was almost welcome: it appeared that nighttime freezes were checking the fever's spread...