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.Scienntific reports on cigarettes-lung cancer theory and other health topice were published. .. WONLiD' TEi:EGRAM •, New York, New York September 14',, 1962 ance. Produce'd inAnirYials, 2 Common Human Vir~s~s By JOHN TB+OAN ~"gnorn • nt tHp npeio1te' tuprp', ff They' added that if, such, vi+ SGrtDDj-Xnmbrd' NemcDaPcrr : published today in' Science, of- WASHIINGTON, Sept. 14.= ficial journIF'ST ' the American Tiwo viruses commonly har- Assn. for the Advancement of' bored l-by . humans, in'cluding : Science. The others were elic- one. linked to colds and sore ited' through telephone inter• ttiroats,: have produced cancer vlews: • In inimaig. -- • After'fariing'to produce ant+ It, is 'the first time any hu+ pnal cancers with such com, psan virus has been proved to mon childhood viruses as tause any kind of cancer. But chicken pox and measles, the !it' does' not_ yet establish that Houston team t'urned to "the these "bugs" produce the human orphan viruses." Raread disease in humans. V__T. &-A W~. , H uma.na om . The organisms belong to the ' - they explained, soo-called adenovirus. family: ~ese; One, Type 12, has been isolatedi "are "virses' that have beenn from persons who have colds Isolated titom humans but associatedl with fever and sore;,w'hose . disease manifestations throats -. though sclentists are ' unknown -: viruses in' aren't sure it is - the ~ cause of search of, disease.' pnch-illness. The.other, Ty . pe' "Cancer may well be the. 18,..doesn't seem, to stir any disease that some or many of' symptoms. ~ these viruses are at ~ present " .Sy shooting these viruses in,: orphan to to baby hamsters, researchers. Among the "orphan viruses" In Houston; Tex., and at the i'm'e, 18 types of adenoviruses., federal government's National( Of the first nine' tested, eight Institutles of, Heaith' in' •Beth. failed to produce animal., esada; Md:, have produced tumors t chest and liver tumors. But ttse' other, Type L; The — Houston team, which caused cancers In 67 of' 83 aecomplished' the feat first: hamsters. In contxa5x, only.one said todaythis could mean peo- ''t' 1170 animals which didn't ple can get cancer from vi•' get such viruses developed can. ruses whichi ordinarily are Shortly afterward, the work picked up In childhood and then s=_em, to lie asleep in the ~yas duplicatedby Dr. Huebner body for years. at NIH. He then went 'on to. Sleeping Viruses show that advenovirus Type 1'8'. . Scientists have been specu, mals - and~tie Houston0.re• lating some human cancers searchers hatie confirmed this. might be triggerediby sleeping Focus Attention ' ' viruses which are roused into' The Houston doctors said. action ' by excess - radiat'ion, •t'hese studies "fmcus, attention" chemicals or other provoking on the possibility such viruses agents. -as well as others which at- The Houston researchers are tack peopie-might cause hu• Dr. John. J. Trentin, a Baylor man cancer. They said this University biologist; Dr. Yq• "should be seriously consid. shiro Y'abe, a! Japanese virolo- ered and' investigarted."' • gist; and I Dr. Grant Taylor; a University of Texas pediatri• eian+ The MH team is headed by Dr. Robert J. Huebner, of the Naitonal Institute of Al• lergy and Infectious Diseases. ruses prove to cause human icancer• on a, delayed basis, ere is•"real hope" a-vaccine ould be made to knock them ut. Preliminary blood tests on 700 patients at Houston's IYI. D. Anderson Hospital indi- cated 46.~percent had been bitl-' ten, by the Type 12 virus at some time in their lives. This shows how common It is. . The work is' being supported by the 11ZIH, American Cancer Society, Ei Paso (Tex.) Better Health Foundation andi the Oreater Longview (Tex) United Fundl ' .