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...already oppressively hot in Houston, Texas' biggest city (pop. 594,321). Because it is just the right size, and in the grip of a polio epidemic, Houston was chosen by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for the first full-scale test of gamma globulin injections as a means of preventing the paralyzing effects of polio...
...Houston, therefore, that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control...
...test of gamma globulin in a polio area was made in Utah last summer. Some 5,000 children were given injections of the blood fraction, and another 5,000 were not (TIME, Sept. 10). The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has never announced the results of that test because, it felt they were inconclusive. But this year the foundation is planning to spend close to $1,000,000 for a series of strictly controlled Utahs to learn more...
...foundation emphasizes that gamma globulin is still in the experimental stage and that there is not much of it around. They are worried that doctors will use up the supply before they know whether it really works. Moreover, even if it does work, its usefulness will be that of a temporary preventative-unlike a vaccine which may be effective for years. Said Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the foundation: "The final goal has not yet been reached. Large-scale tests on many children still must be undertaken before we can hope for victory. It would be a cruel...
...best thing the U.S. public can do to help the polio fight this summer, said Dr. Weaver, is to stay away from gamma globulin, except where the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis directs its use in its controlled experiments...