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ySIX MEDF(RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday December 29, 1995 Science May Deal Staggering BlowTo American Kissing Custom not convinced that kissing and the spread of infectious mono nucleosis were connected. Researchers Hard At Work Why is it that all scientific efforts to transmit the virus by taking nose and throat washings of patients and having unin fected persons gargle with those washes, have failed, he demands. Dr. Hoagland has suggested that the virus can live only in the warm wetness of the mouth, through a kiss, it moves from one warm, wet mouth into an other without ever being subect ed to the warming and drying of free air. "It is quite plausible," said the professor. "But plausibility is not scientific proof." But a num ber of experiments are under way and the final proof may not be far away. However, Abbott Laboratories suggested that even the proof may not prevent epi demics or decrease the amount of viruses going around among and between people, "human na ture being what it is." By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York UP.) During thS coming year, science may deal a staggering blow to one of the most pleasant aspects of the American way of life, the custom of men to kiss women on the lips and vice versa. Appraising the evidence on hand, the Abbott Laboratories concluded that science is about to prove beyond question that this custom is responsible for might occur if one married part among veteran nurses and older doctors. And why will it be epi demic among boys and girls in co-educational colleges, but not among their teachers. Dr. R. J. Hoagland, who is responsible for much of the growing scientific indictment of kissing as a spreader of the dis ease, has pointed out that he was a medical officer at West Point for six years. The cadets commonly caught infectious mononucleosis, but clearly when no one except his wife and he has taken to kissing her only on the cheek. This he told himself, to show that he certainly was no partisan of kissing. He saw the possibility that young nurses and young doctors may kiss. He was willing to ac cept without proof that college boys and girls frequently kiss one another. He was certain that West Point room-mates never kiss one another. But he was the ' spread of disease with a very impressive name, infectious mononucleosis. It is commonly called "glandular fever." The laboratories saw trouble for the American way of life if and when the proof is forth coming. "It is awesome to specu late," said a laboratories ad visory addressed to the medical profession, "on the increased amount of explaining which ner contracted the disease while the other remained well." Frequently Youthful The 'evidence so far explains certain epidemiological oddities of the disease which, hitherto, have defied a scientific explain ing. Why does infectious rhono nucleosis become epidemic among the younger nurses and the interns and young resident doctors in hospitals, but not away from the reservation. Room-mates never got it from one another, although they got all sorts of other infections, par ticularly the common cold. Kissed Only His Wife The writer discussed the evi dence in its relation to these epidemiological oddities with an elderly professor of epidemi ology. For years, as a matter of scientific hygiene, he has kissed YOU'RE NOT TRADING AT TH OCETERIA YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH! BIG FREE PARKING LOTS Ask About Extended Free Parking for Other Downtown Shopping (EmcDCiE'iriEiMiA SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS OPEN 7 DAYS A Q WEEK UNTIL yp.M. 7fe GROCETERIA WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY NEW YEAR'S DAY, JAN. 1st WILL BE OPEN MONAY, JAN. 2nd WE WILL CLOSE AT 6 P.M. 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