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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORECON WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1963 Cancer Scientists Turn Interest To Venezuelan Virus mm bum w;-' By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - OTH - In can cer science there is a sudden Interpst in a virus which in flames the brains of horses. When put into eight human beings with far ad ; vanced cancer i it appeared to ! prolong t h e ; lives of three of them. The DMoi sroitb interest is not engendered by that medical ly meaningless statistic. It grows out of scattered inci dents over the past 60 years In which a viral infection pro ducing fever seemed to in terfere with cancer growth. "Fever therapy" for cancer has long since been discred ited, however. It rarely seems to work. But the horse virus has scientifically raised this question: Could it be a virus specially endowed with chem ical properties that interfere with one class of human can cers? The virus is the one which causes Venezuelan equine en cephalomyelitis (brain inflam mation). It is closely related to viruses which cause the same disease in animals in other parts of the world. Oc casionally human beings get infected with them. Their brains become inflamed, of 4im with a fatal outcome. The viruses are spread by insects, usually mosquitoes. The Venezuelan virus VEE came into this experi mental picture because there is a strain of it which was taken from a Trinidad horse in 1943 and has been kept going in laboratory cultures ever since. Workers Infected Fifty laboratory workers have been infected wilh it over. the years, by accident. Not one developed brain in flammation, although all had brief illnesses with high fe ver. That made it seem non lethal for human beings al though it was highly lethal in mice, guinea pigs and other animals. Nevertheless it has been "attentuated," that is, weak ened, by laborious laboratory procedures with the idea of producing a vaccine to protect laboratory workers against I the full . strength virus. This attenuated VEE attracted Drs. W. D. Tigcrtt, W. II. Crosby, T. O. Berge and their associ ates of Walter Reed Army Medical center in Washing ton. In 1952 other doctors put another brain - inflaming vi rus the West Nile virus into patients with far advanc ed cancers of the kinds which arise from the body's lymph cells. The cancers seemed to shrink, but the patients de veloped brain inflammation. Attenuated VEE might re tain any anti-cancer powers it might have although de- I prived of brain - inflaming properties, the Walter Reed I scientists reasoned. They put Edison Honored During Legislative Session Salem-CPC-Thomas A. Edi son was honored at the Ore gon Legislature Monday for inventing the light bulb 116 years ago. All lights in the House and Senate chambers were turned off for a brief period except for two replicas of the incan descent light bulb Edison in vented. The bulbs glowed brightly on the rostrums cf the Senate president and the Speaker of the House. it into eight lymph-type can cer patients who apparently were doomed. All known treatments had been used in them and all had failed. Four were so far advanced in disease their life expec tancies were measured in days. In only one did the vi rus so much as cause a fe ver. All four died when ex pectcd and their cancers were unchanged. Feverish Illnesi The other four had life expectancies measured in months. In all the viruses produced an acute feverish illness of several days dura tion. When that was over their pain and other cancer symptoms disappeared, fur thermore, there was objective evidence of a shrinking of their cancers. There was no "cure," of course, but their lives were prolonged many j times beyond the medical ex-; pectancy. In carefully measured con servative language the scien tists reported this to the tech nical organ of the National Association for Cancer Re search. They suggested the study of VEE in patients with less advanced cancels was "warranted." You may be sure these studies are now under way. J 7 L. D. WANEK, M.D. Physician and Surgeon announces opening of office in general practice 832 East Main Suite 11 Office Hours by Appointment Phon 779-1721 iiMMwijmui jwiieij ,iei i ) .' hi,wh.kiiiiihh 1 I 111 1 S - .t .- " - -nnn-n ni ,, - m , mt CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPHS 120 East Main St. onrn are fanin VUUM (ft la a Quick STBER Hi I.. mm Retail Prices of Food Expected To Stay About Same Washington -WPP- The Agri culture department says that retail food prices in the first half of 19G3 are expected to average about the same as a year earlier. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, hit by freezing weather, are expect ed to be offset by lower prices for beef, pork and eggs. In a review of the national food situation, the depart ment noted while the current quarter is the low-supply sea son for foods such as fresh vegetables, some fresh fruits, and fishery products, the pro cessed forms of these foods are in large supply. Expenditures Up The department estimated ' consumers spent about S74 billion for food in 1962. This was somewhat more than 4 j per cent larger than food ex- j penditures in 1961. Per capi- j ta food outlays increased 2.8 i per cent, along with the 3.6 per cent gain in per capita : consumer income. The volume of food consumed per person in 1962 was about the same as in 1961. with gains in meals and fats and oils offset by declines in the consump tion of dairy products and fresh fruits and vegetables, j The department predicted , total consumer expenditures for food in 1963 likely will in crease but probably not as much as the 4 per cent in-' crease in 1962. Per capita con sumption of food may increase a little this year, particularly consumption of meals and i poultry. i Little Change Seen The department expects lit tle, if any. change in the all food price level for the year as a whole, compared with 1962. Exports of foods last year are estimated to have been near the record-large quantity exported in 1961. They were especially strong for fats and oils, while grains decreased some. Early in 1963, food ex ports were slowed by the shipping strike, but with ship pins moving again, these ex ports will increase. 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