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...Humans can also contract equine encephalitis if they are bitten by the virus-carrying mosquitoes, and many people have developed the disease. Several thousand inhabitants of the northern Mexican town of Rio Verde have come down with the telltale, flu-like symptoms: headache, fever, aching bones, nausea and vomiting. In the border town of Brownsville, Texas, three children have been diagnosed as having the disease. Elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley, 36 people with similar symptoms have been admitted to hospitals. Their chances of recovery, however, are excellent. Venezuelan equine encephalitis is rarely fatal to humans; most recover from...
...Fever and Flavor
...TIME caught the fever and the flavor. The story on the Jesus revolution [June 21] was exciting, and some of us who are past the age of the Now Generation have been swept along too. First century Christianity is being revived-right here in secular city...
...prostaglandins, but the findings of the Britons, who conducted their work at London's Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, provide the first persuasive proof. In one series of experiments, Dr. John Vane found that aspirin-like drugs impeded the synthesis of a prostaglandin known to cause fever in cats. In another, Dr. Vane and his colleagues Sergio Ferreira and Salvador Moncada found that aspirin blocked the release of prostaglandins in a dog's spleen that had been removed and kept functioning artificially. In a third, Drs. John Brian Smith and Anthony Willis showed that aspirin prevented production...
Their discoveries are significant, opening the door not only to a better understanding of these important hormones, but also to the development of new and more effective drugs for such ailments as rheumatic fever and arthritis. They may also open up new fields in the study of human fertility. Prostaglandins are presently being used experimentally to induce abortions. The Britons' new discovery of aspirin's effect on their production may lead to the development of aspirin-like drugs to prevent miscarriage...