Word: globulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
After a three-day discussion of last year's polio outbreaks in communities where gamma globulin was injected into tens of thousands of children and into older members of families in which a case had occurred, the experts concluded...
...standoff on the second point meant little, because if mass inoculations had been highly effective, the fact would have been apparent. After studying the report, one authority had a crisp suggestion: forget about gamma globulin for polio and turn it over to the states for use against measles and hepatitis...
Scrupulous Sanitation. There is no curative treatment. Gamma globulin, given while the infectious form of the disease is incubating, may greatly lessen the severity of the attack or actually prevent it. But once the infection is full-blown, doctors can do nothing more than put their patients to bed, and feed them a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet with plenty of vitamins...
...infect any animal but man. The P.H.S. has found many volunteer human guinea pigs in federal prisons, will soon report on its findings. The Army has some 60 investigators working on hepatitis. So far, the best protection seems to be scrupulous sanitation, and the only prophylactic, immunization with gamma globulin...