Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually thinks of sexual obsession as an undetected virus of the soul, a bug caught some time in the formative years but remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged...
Your article on this incurable virus [Aug. 2] described a feared and often misunderstood health problem in a brief, comprehensive and understandable manner. An educated public is essential in learning to live with the disease and the threat of contracting it, and ultimately in avoiding its propagation...
...similar claim is made on behalf of ribavirin, a drug already marketed in 30 foreign countries by Viratek, a small West Coast firm. Ribavirin is said to interfere with the virus' reproduction by blocking protein synthesis in affected cells. Another drug sold abroad but not in the U.S. is Newport Pharmaceuticals' isoprinosine. According to Newport President Alvin Glasky, the drug "speeds up the body's natural curing process" by boosting the immune system. But so far, experts at NIH reject it as being of no proven benefit. Last week scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center...
...most effective weapon against herpes would be an agent that activated the immune system before an attack. Once the virus has tunneled into the ganglia, it may be too late for a cure. "You would need a pretty remarkable drug to attack the virus genes without damaging the host cells," explains Notkins. Bernard Roizman at the University of Chicago is one of many researchers engaged in the international search for a herpes vaccine. The main challenge, he explains, is to create a substance that poses none of the dangers of the virus itself. "It can't cause cancer, for instance...
...There is a Nobel Prize for the person who figures out how the viruses select their prey," says Immunologist Paul Wiesner at the Centers for Disease Control, and "a second prize for the person who can figure out the latency of the virus: Just how does it select that perfect hiding place where it can stay for years without being destroyed by the immunological system?" Atlanta Virologist Andre Nahmias, one of the two scientists who discovered Type 2 in the late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent...