Word: virus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal...
...banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear the virus would be tracked...
...still necessary for Britain to stamp out animals along with the disease. Sympathetic to their pleas, the British government is spending nearly $1,000,000 a year on foot-and-mouth research at laboratories in Pirbright. Surrey, has already developed one promising immunization technique similar to live polio virus inoculations: an attenuated live foot-and-mouth virus is grown in a culture of kidney tissues, then injected into chick embryos, mice, and finally into the muscles of animals where it multiplies harmlessly, stimulating the production of antibodies...
...developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...
TIME'S INNUENDO ABOUT MURROW'S FAILURE TO APPEAR ELECTION NIGHT IS SLANDEROUS. IS DOUBLE VIRUS PNEUMONIA NOT ENOUGH, OR DOES TIME INSIST ON TERMINAL-STAGE CANCER? MURROW HAS DONE MORE FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM THAN ALL THE REST OF US COMBINED...