Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers found that the aunt had become ill just before she left Africa and that blood samples from four of the twelve Americans she visited showed signs of recent Epstein-Barr virus infection. Genetic causes were ruled out because not all the victims were blood relations. Says Grufferman: "This is one of the best-documented cancer clusters worldwide, but it's difficult to investigate...
...difficulties is the mixed signal provided by the viral evidence. Signs of Epstein-Barr infection were found in one family member with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma but were absent in two of the other cancer victims (the fourth died before testing was done). Was some other virus, still undiscovered, responsible for the familial outbreak...
While Grufferman and Pagano search for a new virus, the afflicted family is living on edge. A second of the four victims has died, but two are in remission. "In the back of our minds is the question of whether or not we are carriers," says one. "If they can find out what triggered me," she says, "maybe we can protect my children as well as Joe Blow. I just wouldn't want anyone to go through what we went through...
...subject of this week's cover proved quite challenging. The target itself was elusive. Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, describes the virus as a bizarre creature that "isn't really life as we know it, but isn't inanimate either. It comes in an endless number of sizes and shapes, each seemingly designed to inflict a different kind of woe on humans, animals or plants." Wallis readily agrees. "Though we've all had the flu, few of us are familiar with the tiny creature that causes...
...shed light on this shadowy world, Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash traveled to Atlanta to talk to experts at the Centers for Disease Control about virus-related diseases. Reporter-Researcher Christine Gorman, who is based in New York City, attended a conference in Park City, Utah, to interview scientists about the possible links between viruses and cancer. In Washington, Correspondent Dick Thompson, who has spent much of his career at TIME covering science, was busy last week analyzing the Surgeon General's report on one of the deadliest viruses, the one that causes AIDS...