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Getting Under the Skin? More startling and possibly just as significant, though no epidemiologist wanted to commit himself, was the fact that 23 cases had developed in the families of children who had come down with polio after getting Cutter vaccine. Eleven were adults, and one had died. This was a notably higher rate for family contact cases than would be expected, or than had been seen in last year's trials...
With Parke, Davis in the clear, teams headed for the other labs. Still under ban were the. Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. No positive proof could yet be drawn from the raw data on Cutter, but a top epidemiologist called them, in his professional patter, "clear evidence that [outbreaks in California and Idaho] have all the characteristics of a common-source epidemic, the Cutter vaccine being the vehicle of infection...
...results of extensive tests made last spring, when 440,000 primary school children were injected with the vaccine, showed 80 to 90 percent success, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., University of Michigan epidemiologist announced yesterday. Francis was in charge of an evaluation of the tests...
...first, gamma globulin seemed to have proved itself as a weapon of definite though limited value against poliomyelitis. So. certainly, thought Pittsburgh's Dr. William McD. Hammon, the epidemiologist who pioneered mass tests with it (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952). But this week a score of the nation's leading experts on polio and immunization turned thumbs down on G.G. (Dr. Hammon was on the panel, but his position was not disclosed...
...long, hard road. Ohio-born, he took mission training in Pittsburgh and supplemental work in Brussels, then shipped to the Belgian Congo for four years as a medical missionary. Not until he was 28 did he enter Harvard Medical School. Many of his recent years as an epidemiologist have been spent in trying to persuade his colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951) who tried...