Word: globulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chimps & Antibodies. Dr. Bodian began to suspect the old theory two years ago while analyzing a series of gamma globulin samples from human blood. He found that 80 to 90% of it contained antibodies that would attack and kill live polio virus. Such antibodies, he reasoned, could only come from a blood stream which had carried polio virus in the past...
...Bodian carried his experiments a step further. A few minutes before feeding his monkeys live polio virus, he injected reinforcements of human gamma globulin containing polio antibodies into the animals' muscles. None of the monkeys came down with polio in its paralytic form...
Utah & Beyond. Encouraging as the experiments were, the immunologists kept their enthusiasm under careful check: gamma globulin seemed to have helped a few monkeys. What about children...
...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...