Word: viralization
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...often confusing viruses. Ironically, one of these, named Bunyamwera (after a Uganda district), has been tried experimentally as a treatment for cancer. It was a cluster of leukemia cases among children in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill. (TIME, June 2, 1961), that backed up the suggestion of a viral role in the lymphatic leukemia of American children...
...first projects planned for the new center is a continuation of acute nutritional studies now going on at Harvard. Later work will involve neuropsychology and pathology and experimentation with viral deseases in monkeys...
John F. Enders, recently appointed Higgins University Professor at Harvard, won the 1962 Howard Taylor Ricketts Memorial Award from the University of Chicago. The Noble-Prize winner will accept the award in Chicago May 31 and will speak on recent observations on reactions of cells in culture to viral infections. The Ricketts award is named after the University of Chicago bacteriologist who discovered the micro-organism that causes typhus fever and proved that Resky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by ticks...
...more recent years, Enders and his fellow workers at Children's Hospital have isolated and grown the measles virus in tissue culture and have prepared a measles vaccine which is currently being tested in man. Co-author of a text on immunity, Enders has contributed chapters on viral infections for a number of other books...
...bacillus; equally important, it was the first effective drug against psittacosis (caused by an unusually large virus) and against such diseases as typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever (caused by related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused a dozen or more cases, several fatal, of aplastic anemia...