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...eleven states where vaccine was contrasted with placebo; in the 33 states where children received either real vaccine or nothing, the results were similar but a bit blurred. (Probable reason: anxious parents of children who got no shots may have had them inoculated on the side with gamma globulin, which has a short-lived protective effect.) Among the children who were observed for evidence of polio but who got no shots, there were eleven deaths. Among children who got placebo shots, there were four deaths. It Is Potent. This quality was measured by the vaccine's ability to raise...
...Hygiene Department has given injections of gamma globulin to more than 20 freshmen in Thayer Middle, following the contraction of infectious hepatitis by Louis J. Elsas '58, a student from the entry...
Several Adams House residents were rushing yesterday to the Hygiene Building in a minor panic asking for gamma globulin inoculations, it was learned last night. The sudden rush for the wonder drug is due to mild contraction of hepatitis by an Adams House senior...
Students who have been refused shots of the gamma globulin were irate and complained that the doctors offered to give them a prescription and have them buy it themselves. Contratto explained that only persons who had slight contact with the ill student were being refused free inoculations. The State will not give gamma globulin for use in a scare, he said...
...bleeding (20 to 25 pints a day) set in. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after 442 hours of bleeding, Willie Cooke died, having taken a record 400 pints (232 of whole blood...