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...William McDowell Hammon, Pittsburgh epidemiologist, told the American Public Health Association in Cleveland that "significant protection" against the paralyzing effects of polio can be given by inoculating children in epidemic areas with gamma globulin...
...tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
...were known, the records went to the foundation, which checked each victim's syringe number against the manufacturer's list to see whether the child had had G.G. or gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...
Science & Medicine 84. As an epidemic gripped Houston, Texas, doctors injected thousands of children with gamma globulin to see if it will prevent: 1. Sleeping sickness...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...