Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...explanation is that jabbing a hypodermic into the muscle means cutting or tearing a number of nerves which then offer the virus particles a direct pathway to the brain or spine. This seems plausible because inoculations against other diseases, e.g., diphtheria, may trigger a polio infection even when no polio virus is introduced and the only common factor is the use of the needle...
...hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have dropped from 124 per 100,000 in 1947 to 35 in 1954. Diphtheria deaths fell after 1942 from...
...have isolated, from the blood serum of both man and animals, a protein that destroys bacteria and neutralizes viruses. Because of its powers, they have named it properdin (from the Latin perdere, to destroy). While the antibody proteins that the system develops after some diseases or inoculations (e.g., polio, diphtheria) are useful only against the organisms that cause the particular disease, properdin is not choosy: it destroys or neutralizes an extremely wide range of bacteria and viruses. Perhaps equally important in the atomic age, properdin seems to increase the body's resistance to the infections that so often follow...
...best time to vaccinate youngsters against smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough is in the first few hours of life, Country Doctor Herbert D. Chamberlain told general practitioners. Among 741 babies so treated in Ohio's Vinton County, he reported no bad reactions, and so far full protection against the diseases...