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...destruction. In The Biological Time Bomb (World; $5.50), published last week, British Science Writer Gordon Rattray Taylor raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses carrying damaging hereditary material. Experiments have already shown that viral infections can make fruit flies fatally sensitive to such ordinary substances as carbon dioxide. M.I.T. Bacteriologist Salvador Luria speculates that some day a diabolical individual may be able to concoct a virus that renders men equally susceptible to specific substances. Then, says Luria, he could threaten to release the material unless...
...growing militance. Parks Superintendent Frank Foehr calls the current crop of flower children "a different element-young hoodlums." Once they loved blossoms; now, Foehr says, they come to Golden Gate Park to "put garbage in Albert Lake and break the rhododendrons." Infected communal needles boost the already soaring viral-hepatitis rate. Free stores and communal kitchens are not in evidence; now the tourist is lured by professionally made hippie costumes Pacifism, once the heart of flower power, has been supplanted by talk of armed violence. Most significant of all, the cast of characters has changed. City Supervisor William Blake says...
...with an epidemic of rubella ("German" or "three day" measles) that swept the western Pacific island eleven years ago; the next major U.S. epidemic did not come until 1964. Then it left at least 20,000 and perhaps 30,000 U.S. babies crippled or blinded from viral damage early in gestation. Taiwan is now experiencing another rubella out break and a threatened epidemic; the next is predicted for the U.S. in 1971. But this time, Taiwan is enjoying pre-epidemic benefits: thousands of doses of rubella vaccine, not yet available in the U.S., have been flown to the island...
Although some virologists differed with Dr. Chanock about details, they agreed that the newly developed vaccine against RSV must not be given to infants under six months, as it appears to increase the risk and severity of pneumonia. A similar phenomenon is now being seen in connection with another viral disease: circulating antibody from killed-virus vaccine against measles also seems to make a child more susceptible to severe disease if he later receives live-virus vaccine...
...common in tropical and underdeveloped countries than in the U.S., most of Parke, Davis' huge sales of the antibiotic (up to $86 million in 1960, $72 million in 1966) have been in domestic prescriptions. For what? Far too often, testified Dr. Best, for the common cold and similar viral infections (for which no drug is of any use), and against many bacterial infections for which safer drugs are just as effective. Dr. Dameshek added acne to the list of conditions for which Chloromycetin should not be prescribed...