Word: viralization
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From a dark stage peopled by the shadows of people, four Regent-Councillors step forward. They vote to kill a man not there--a man who has bought and sold the human soul, yet dies a martyr for the truth. The viral truth his death was to conceal spreads and infects; like the worm of Solomon, it shatters only what resists it most. When Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra die, the victims of the ineluctable pest--"the right outstripped her strength"--, the weak remain to shield their dead from the night...
...Seattle conferees did not lack for theories. One is that a viral infection may kill these babies while the virus is still in its usually silent incubation period. Another is that the babies are in a transition period between inherited and acquired immunity, and are therefore especially vulnerable. A third is that death may result from a violent immune reaction (anaphylactic shock) to cow's milk. But nobody knows for certain whether breast-fed babies are immune. The experts were unanimous on one point: they need more facts before they can prove or disprove any theory about the elusive...
...pregnant woman's viral infections may damage the baby in four ways: 1) by causing prompt abortion; 2) by killing the fetus, leading to later stillbirth; 3) by preventing normal development of organs, so that the baby is born deformed; 4) by infecting the baby so that its first days or weeks of independent life are an uphill struggle against disease. Viruses may strike at any time from the first few days after conception to the moment of delivery...
...John Gunther, 61. ubiquitous author of Inside books, with phlebitis, at Harkness Pavilion, Manhattan; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, after removal of a benign tumor (lipoma) from her neck, in Walter Reed General Hospital. Washington, D.C.; Baritone Nelson Eddy, 61, hospitalized by pulmonary congestion with viral infection, in Framingham, Mass...
Partial Immunity. Most alarming to many doctors was a New York City outbreak of bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia among children. Some hospitals reported them twice as prevalent as ever before. And for this the Asian A-2 virus was not to blame. In many cases, the guilty microbe was one of the parainfluenza viruses...