Medicine: Cold Vaccine? No

A score of the nation's top virus researchers put their heads together in Manhattan last week and collectively bemoaned the fact that they still can offer no preventive and no cure for the commonest of civilized man's ills, the common cold. All they could prescribe for sniffling humanity was hope.

Western Reserve University's Dr. John Dingle told the meeting, called by the Common Cold Foundation, all about the researchers' failures, then added: "However, I am confident that we will find the solution to the problem, probably within the next five years." But he dashed...

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