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...Family One of the vaccines developed by microbiologist Maurice Hilleman [MILESTONES, April 25] came about through a fortuitous family connection. TIME recounted that medical breakthrough in a July 1, 1966, report...
...since they give an immunity that lasts only a year or two, they are unsuitable for children, who need a vaccine that confers?as the natural disease usually does?virtually lifetime immunity ... BY LUCKY COINCIDENCE, THE SEARCH [FOR A LIVE-VIRUS VACCINE] ENDED WHEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD JERYL LYNN HILLEMAN CAME DOWN WITH MUMPS. Jeryl Lynn is the daughter of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, head of the virology team at Merck Sharp & Dohme Institute for Therapeutic Research, which had been hunting for years for a mumps virus that would grow well in the lab and lose its virulence, while still...
...DIED. MAURICE HILLEMAN, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. After being persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he could do better than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. He developed 8 of the 14 vaccines currently recommended for children, including shots for measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, chickenpox and meningitis...
Died. Maurice Hilleman, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
...quantities in the blood of carriers. Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University then discovered that when infected blood serum is boiled, the virus is killed but the antigen remains able to induce production of the antibodies that prevent the illness. The experimental vaccine was developed by Virologist Maurice Hilleman of the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. Should no hitches develop, the first hepatitis B vaccine may become commercially available in two years...