1955-05-14 — Page 13

"Many a wordy, debase. Has been!! whiled assay for me by Thoughts a painting that I loved. That is no escapism, it is civilization.

SAYS ZDEN.

BELFARE STAT

""Gad: Not one of those

dshed modems, I hope

ELECTION ROYAL ACADEMY

CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1955

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Quardian

Tory or Socialist? How Britain Decides

THE CONSERVATIVE

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PARTY TODAY

HERE was one

ex-

traordinary omission By ROBERT MACKENZIE

from the tributes

In

AFTER

POLIO

WHAT?

By LES ARMOUR

"HATEVER the re- Sweden. Thereafter. It spread

W

sults of investigation rapidly into some of the Salk world vaccines used to fight polio

arwund the civilised

The reason was not nects- in the United States, British sarily that the virus was some- researchers are convinced thing new. More likely it was

the result of modern hygiene that the basic polio problem and polio has seemed to follow has been licked,

closely the progress of modem bygiene.

What they're worrying about now

seriously about

and worrying Under the old conditions is what's nearly everyone became immune

going to happen when polio to the polio virus at an early age through contact" with ft. is beaten.

Once hygiene had stamped out the conditions

under which it Virologists-the пед who

thrived. whole Cominunities Deal with viruses, the minute with no immunity could be ate organisms which produce polie, tacked where the virus" got. a

'flu, the comman

cold, small pox, yellow fever and a host of other diseases-are convinced that after polio there will be something else.

And the British Medical Re search Courell and other re searchers at British hospitals and biological research stations are working quietly but steadily on cracking the problem.

One researcher said: "The history of virus diseases leaves us convinced that the virus the most mutable of all orga- alsms, and that new and deady variecles

aizmost sure: vio arise."

Mutable means capable of developing new species. And viruses, it seems, are capable of switching form and tactics with deadly speed,

REAL PROBLEM

bold on a single individual.

In short, man is tar through with viruses

COULD BE DEADLY

tromm

Another strong possibility that, where human beings are made immune to viruses which normally attack humans, there' is an open field for viruses from animala,

Researchers, for instance, cite the case in 1633 when an epidemic of a wholly new type or ericephalitis struck St Louis. it was racked down later to a to birds. The Virus common birds were unharmed by it. But to humans, it could be deadly,

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