Part 6

From the July 23^rd, 1996 Dallas Morning Herald, editorial section:

From the July 27^th, 1996 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

In a political turnaround that just two weeks ago would have seemed unimaginable, President Clinton is showing signs of regaining at least some of the support that had been eroding as the HRV crisis in the United States intensified. The development of an experimental HRV treatment by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, and the success of initial trials with laboratory mice of that treatment, has done a good deal to help his poll numbers among likely voters in this November’s general elections...

 

From the July 30^th, 1996 Philadelphia Inquirer, page 3:

NEW EXPERIMENTAL HRV TREATMENT SHOWS PROMISE

CDC projects start of human trials of new medicine within 8-10 days

From the August 2^nd, 1996 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have confirmed that human trials for the new HRV treatment will get underway in the next four to five days. All over the world, people are hoping and praying that this treatment will prove to be effective against the lethal respiratory disease, which since it was first detected in Vietnam in May of 1995 has killed nearly 1600 people...

From the August 3^rd, 1996 Montreal Gazette, front page:

POSSIBLE HRV CASE REPORTED IN TURKEY

From the August 7^th, 1996 Rocky Mountain News, page A3:

Human trials are set to begin today for the HRV treatment created by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The fatal respiratory germ, which has claimed at least 1630 lives since it was first detected in Vietnam in May of 1995, spread into Turkey four days ago and there are widespread concerns that the virus may jump the Turkish border into Greece or Bulgaria, possibly both...

From the August 9^th, 1996 Philadelphia Inquirer, front page:

From the August 12^th, 1996 Le Soir, front page:

CHIRAC GOVERNMENT ILL-PREPARED TO DEAL WITH HRV OUTBREAKS

IN FRANCE

From the August 14^th, 1996 broadcast of CBC News at Six:

The Greek government has declared a national health emergency following confirmation of at least four HRV cases on the island of Crete...

From the August 16^th, 1996 Los Angeles Times, page A3:

CDC, US ARMY MEDICS TO DISTRIBUTE HRV TREATMENTS AT

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

From the August 17^th, 1996 East African Standard:

From the August 20^th, 1996 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

For the first time in more than a year, the people of Vietnam are getting some good news in their struggle against HRV. A spokesman for the Vietnamese health ministry said this morning that no new cases of the virus have been reported in that country in the past five days and that a new treatment developed at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has apparently been effective in slowing the spread of the disease among the population of Vietnam...

From the August 23^rd, 1996 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight With Peter Jennings:

With just three days left until the start of the Democratic National Convention at Chicago’s United Center, what just a few months earlier had looked like a walk in the park for Howard Dean is now instead seen as a political duel to the death, potentially the fiercest presidential nomination struggle to happen at any political convention in almost a generation. The Clinton Administration has thrown a monkey wrench into Dean’s campaign plans thanks in part to its development of a successful treatment for the HRV virus...

 

From the August 28^th, 1996 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

With just one day to go before the Democratic National Convention is officially scheduled to close, we are now up to the fourth ballot, and incumbent President Bill Clinton is still neck-and-neck with surprise challenger Howard Dean. Party insiders are calling this the closest such ballot seen at a Democratic convention in more than a century...

From the August 29^th, 1996 New York Times, front page:

From the September 7^th, 1996 Chicago Tribune:

CDC Reports No New Continental U.S. Cases of HRV In 4 Days

From the September 10^th, 1996 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

From the September 12^th, 1996 Los Angeles Times, page A2:

From the September 13^th, 1996 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

South Korean health officials are cautiously optimistic tonight that South Korea’s HRV crisis may be finally coming to an end...

From an Associated Press bulletin dated September 17^th, 1996:

The Russian health ministry reports HRV cases in that country are steadily declining...

From the September 20^th, 1996 Sydney Morning Herald, front page:

FEDERAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES SAY NO NEW H.R.V. INFECTIONS

IN AUSTRALIA

JOHN HOWARD CRITICIZED FOR "IMMIGRANTS CAUSED HAIPHONG

VIRUS" REMARK

From the September 25^th, 1996 San Francisco Examiner, page 3:

From the October 1^st, 1996 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight With Peter Jennings:

The tide appears to be turning in the global HRV epidemic which has been plaguing much of Asia along with parts of Europe, the Pacific Basin, and the United States since May of last year. A spokesman for the UN’s World Health Organization issued a statement this afternoon reporting that there has been a 50% decrease worldwide in cases of the lethal respiratory virus over the last two months, and as the new anti-HRV treatment developed by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta this summer becomes more widely available it is expected that the number of cases will drop still further...

From the October 7^th, 1996 Manchester Guardian, page 5:

From the October 16^th, 1996 broadcast of The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather:

From the October 28^th, 1996 New York Times, page A3:

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ESTIMATES FINAL HRV DEATH COUNT

AT 2,057

From the November 7^th, 1996 edition of CNN Headline News: