Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monkey disease, now known as Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), turned out to be "the very best animal model system to study AIDS," Hunt says...
Wacker agreed that the cold is often spread by students who bring from home local strains of the virus. While they may have aquired particular immunity to these regional forms of the cold, students from other areas have not, he said...
...some Quincy House residents, colds are more personal than medical. Rather than blame their illness on the weather, regional forms of the virus or stress, they choose to blame it on Joshua F. Thorpe '88, the sickly senior reported...
Victims of AIDS must not only combat the virus that causes the disease but must also fend off potentially fatal infections that overrun their weakened immune systems. A team of researchers in Boston and Los Angeles, led by Hematologist Jerome Groopman of New England Deaconess Hospital, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week that a genetically engineered version of a naturally occurring hormone partially restored depressed immune systems in 16 AIDS patients...
When Clifford Ray took sons Richard, 10, Robert, 9, and Randy, 8, to the first - day of classes in Arcadia, Fla., last week, half the 693 students at Memorial Elementary School were missing. The Ray boys, all hemophiliacs, have been exposed to the AIDS virus, and many children were kept home...