Cold War collaboration probed possible viral cause of ALS

Excerpt from the January 9, 1965, issue of Science News Letter

Study Soviet virus claim — Soviet claims that a virus causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)… are getting further study by U.S. scientists. Six of them have just returned to Bethesda, Md., to report on a 12,000-mile trip to visit 23 clinical and laboratory research centers in the Soviet Union.