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...also expects to use the virus to analyze the potency of gamma globulin...
...Gamma globulin has edged back into favor as a protective against polio. After restudy of cases that occurred in 1952 and tests of viruses from victims. Pittsburgh's Dr. William McD. Hammon reported that G.G.'s record had been smirched by sloppy test procedures and by confusing other diseases with polio. Hammon and colleagues now consider G.G. slightly more effective than they had first thought-but still no substitute for a vaccine...
...does the foundation want more money? The root of the trouble is that it is stuck with a $19 million bill for gamma globulin this year, in addition to a $7,500,000 test of the Salk vaccine, plus all its regular outlays for care of patients (estimated to top $33.5 million), education and research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals...
Free for All? The Red Cross insists that no charge ever be levied for blood which it has collected from volunteer donors, or for serum albumin and gamma globulin derived from such blood. But the A.M.A. and state medical societies claim that free blood-for any patients other than charity cases-is "socialism." In public statements some officials of county and state societies have shown that they are determined to wrest control of blood from "lay" groups...
...Gamma globulin, Enders said also provides antibodies against polio, but in a passive way. Whereas the new vaccine presumably help a person to develop his own antibodies, gamma globulin only provides ready-made antibodies, he stated...