Word: viralization
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...called their complaint a cold or catarrh, die Grippe- or flu, the answer was the same: for none of these illnesses caused by viruses does medicine have a cure. The best that any victim can expect is the relief of some immediate symptoms and unimpeded recovery from the original viral infection before a secondary bacterial infection can cause complications...
...succeed the late Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads (TIME, Aug. 24) as president and director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute: Seattle-born Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr., 53, vice president and physician in chief of the Rockefeller Institute, specialist in virology and efforts to find drug treatments for viral infections...
...shown by the fate of 33 New Jersey victims: 21 died, eleven had brain damage, only one recovered fully. Once infection sets in, no treatment has any effect on the progress of EEE - or, as the experts called it more often last week, EVE, short for eastern viral encephalomyelitis. The disease is even deadlier for horses and pheasants, but can be prevented in these species by vaccination. So far, no vaccine has been approved for general use in man. Best current bet for control of EVE: identify the mosquito carriers, such as Dr. Shope was collecting, and exterminate them...
Last week Iowa-born Gilbert Dalldorf, 59, won one of the 1959 Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory statuette) for following the White Plains footprints to Coxsackie and beyond, and also for showing that one viral infection may interfere with the development of another. (This may explain why, though Coxsackie and polio often coincide, one usually predominates and few if any patients seem to get both diseases...
...attack on the common cold. For a quarter-century or more, physicians have been virtually unanimous in believing that colds are caused by viruses, but these are so maddeningly elusive that no consistently effective vaccine has yet been made.* Also, since there are no specific cures for most viral diseases, the only thing to do for their victims is to treat the symptoms...