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...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...
Tireless work by such researchers as Dr. William McD. Hammon of gamma globulin fame (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952) and Yale's Dr. John R. Paul shows that polio is a worldwide, natural infection of man and at least as old as civilization. And the first and greatest paradox is that the more widespread the infection, the less disease there...
...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...
Active and Passive. For Dr. Hammon, the progress reported marked a hilltop on a long, hard road. Ohio-born, he took mission training in Pittsburgh and supplemental work in Brussels, then shipped to the Belgian Congo for four years as a medical missionary. Not until he was 28 did he enter Harvard Medical School. Many of his recent years as an epidemiologist have been spent in trying to persuade his colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia...
...evident missionary zeal, Dr. Hammon was quick to point out that gamma globulin is far from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...