Respiratory virus disease in the Antarctic: Immunological studies

• Main Author: Holmes, M.J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Salisbury; Stonington; Stonington Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7152200/; https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-433-08155-5.50017-0

This chapter discusses the reports that men who had returned from 1.5 to 2 years isolation in Antarctica and had suffered severely from acute respiratory infections. It was surmised that this might be because of increased sensitivity to one of the common families of respiratory viruses. Two lines of...