Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symptoms fitted the concept of an infectious disease: headache, sore throat, malaise, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea. Since the Royal Free's expert microbiologists could find no bacteria to blame, they concluded that the cause of the outbreak was an even smaller and more elusive germ, an unidentified virus...
...well-financed country. When the Viet Cong complained of civilian bombing by U.S. planes, Perot offered to make good the damages. When Hanoi said that if Moscow agreed, the packages would have to be delivered by Dec. 31, Perot, clad in light blue jump suit and sick with a virus, loaded his troupe of newsmen and Red Cross workers aboard the 707, chartered for $1,450 an hour, and set off for Europe. He wanted to be close to Moscow. Told by India and Burma that he could not fly over those countries, he turned around and flew over...
While such natural hazards as snow, fog and heavy rains deterred most longdistance passengers last week, one world traveler got through unimpeded. Requiring no passport and thriving on inclement weather, the influenza virus designated A2-Hong Kong-68 was sweeping across Europe like a Mongol horde...
...lack of what epidemiologists call "herd immunity." Unlike North America, virtually the entire Continent (aside from European Russia) got off lightly last winter. Relatively few Europeans developed either flu or the substantial natural immunity that the grippe confers against a later bout of disease from the same virus. So most Europeans remained susceptible, and they have made little use of the available vaccines...
...cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe and even fatal reactions in a small but appreciable number of people, with an average of seven deaths reported annually in the U.S. since 1950. Also, it probably leaves a greater number of victims with permanent mental damage from spread of the cowpox virus to the brain. Yet the U.S. has had no death from smallpox itself since 1949 and not one case of the disease since 1954. What the country now needs, argues the University of Colorado's Dr. C. Henry Kempe, is protection not against smallpox but against vaccination...