Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ullie Iselin, captain of the crew, began rowing again yesterday after several weeks of inactivity caused by an attack of virus pneumonia. Instead of moving to his number three slot in the varsity boat, however, Iselin took over Cal Dickinson's number three place in the J.V. shell...
Immunization experiments on mice are being done by John E. Gordon, head of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. He found that litters of immunized mothers were protected against mild forms of the disease for two months after their birth. Virus administered after that time had no crippling effects; thus the mice were immunized against the disease and could transmit some of this protection to their off-springs...
...reason for the occurrence of many cases at about the same time, says Ingalls, is simultaneous exposure to the virus rather than the spread from person to person. Ingalls and his colleagues believe the disease may behave like measles or scarlet fever. In this case, the contamination of milk or food may account for epidemics, as it does with those diseases...
...discovered that people whose children have polio are frequently shunned by others in the community who fear they may catch the virus. This feeling is due, she said, to the publicity the disease gets during an epidemic, with accounts of the death and injuries inflicted, and no mention of the large number of recoveries made...
...virus itself is as old as civilization, and epidemics have been known to occur only in civilized countries. Scientists have ascertained its presence in mummies taken from ancient Egyptian tombs. They attribute the cause to the highly perfected sanitary arrangements in civilized societies. Among savage groups, where sanitation is not developed, children get exposed to the disease early and in small amounts, thus building up an immunity...