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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...
...intricate processes of giving people immunity against disease, instead of waiting to cure them after they have been stricken (gamma globulin and vaccines for polio are the latest examples), medical science has a relatively new name: immunochemistry. Last week judges for the Lasker Awards recognized its importance by picking as one of 1953's winners Dr. Michael Heidelberger, 65, of New York City, for "decisive contributions to mankind in developing a new subscience. the precise measuring tool of immunochemistry...
...Gamma globulin...
...Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which O'Connor calls "a stopgap measure" because it can only make polio less severe, not prevent...