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...major source of data is Florida's Dade County (Miami and environs), locale for the biggest U.S. field trial of any live-virus vaccine (TIME, Feb. 29). As of April 30, when Florida's polio season was beginning and authorities halted vaccinations to keep test results as clear as possible, no fewer than 413,336 residents had taken a swig of the sweetish, pink vaccine developed by Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald...
Cause & Effect? The first and most vital question was: Is the vaccine safe? Last week Dade's Health Commissioner Turner E. Cato listed seven cases of paralytic polio in the county since vaccine feeding began-about average for the date. Two victims had not taken the vac cine, but five patients (including one severely paralyzed) became ill seven to 14 days after taking it. It may never be possible to tell whether the infection came from the vaccine. If a patient develops paralytic polio about ten days after vaccination, it is extremely difficult to tell where...
...programs of medical relief for the aged subsidized by matching funds from Washington, and almost every large county in the land has built a hospital that accommodates the poor. County hospitals vary in quality, and state relief varies in quantity-but some of it is generous. Miami's Dade County, one of the best, spends $350,000 a year on wards in nursing homes, supplements the income of the ailing aged who require rest-home care so that each one has at least $150 a month. California provides a state base pension of $115 a month for five-year...
...drive by backers of oral, live-virus vaccines for the right to succeed the Salk killed-virus injections as the first line of defense against poliomyelitis reached the U.S. last week. Biggest offensive was launched in Miami and surrounding Dade County, where the entire under-40 population, estimated at 520,000, was marshaled in an effort to show that a single swallow of the three-way vaccine is not only safe but superior to Salk. By week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped...