Word: gg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virologists, pediatricians and public health officials have worked out a compromise. They give the live vaccine, and at the same time they give an injection of human gamma globulin, the blood fraction that contains antibodies against measles as well as against other diseases. The "GG" has staved off fever in all but about 20% of children already double-vaccinated and has eliminated the rash in all but 3%. Most important, the GG does not keep the children from developing enough of their own antibodies to give them lasting protection against natural measles...
...Brave, the Arm. After stating that their children had never had measles, parents pushed, pulled or carried the kids into the cafeteria-clinics. For the brave ones, two rolled-up sleeves sufficed for a shot of vaccine in one arm and GG in the other. Kids who went into tantrums had to be held while their pants were rolled down and they got a needle in each buttock. The one child in five who gave a blood sample will be bled again in about a month, for comparison of before-and-after antibody levels. All parents got a form...