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Died. Max Theiler, 73, South African-born virologist who as a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation won the 1951 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his success in developing a vaccine against yellow fever; of lung cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Died. Dr. Peyton Rous, 90, U.S. cancer researcher and virologist, who in 1911 first proved the existence of virus-induced cancer in animals; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though dismissed as "utter nonsense" at the time, Rous' discovery of a virus-transmissible cancer (sarcoma) was eventually accepted as a most promising lead in cancer research. It also launched his career at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute (now University), where he perfected the first technique for preserving whole blood for transfusions and opened the way for modern treatment of liver and digestive diseases. It was not until 1966, more than half...
First Year Worst. Nor is this cautious attitude limited to oldtimers. Dr. Samuel L. Katz, 42, Duke University's brilliant pediatrician who worked with Harvard's great virologist John F. Enders, is chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee that is drawing up vaccination schedules for children. In its next revision, Katz insists, there will be "no recommendation banning mass vaccination programs for smallpox." That means no widespread change in the current practice of vaccinating infants between six and nine months of age. However, vaccination is three times as likely to cause severe illness in the first...
Died. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., 69, pioneering American virologist and head of the epidemiology department at the University of Michigan; following abdominal surgery; in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1934 Francis made medical history by isolating the classic A strain of influenza; he identified the virulent B strain in 1940, and by 1944 he had conquered both with a vaccine so dependable that it was used to inoculate the entire U.S. Army two years later. But his greatest success came in 1954, when he supervised (he unprecedented field trials (covering 1,800,000 children in 44 states at an expense...
That, Gajdusek says, may have been a mistake. Some of these delayed-fuse viruses may take years to exert their malign effects in small animals, and decades in long-lived Homo sapiens. Virologist Gajdusek, a human whirlwind who goes around the world half a dozen times a year, decided to become a model of patience. At the institute, he set up a long-range study program with a variety of animals, ranging from tree shrews to sheep and goats, a dozen species of monkeys, and a number of forbiddingly expensive chimpanzees...