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Besides the inevitable competing claims of the vaccine producers, there may be controversy as to which type is safest and most effective. The front runner so far is a vaccine named HPV-77 by the virologists who developed it in the Federal Government's Division of Biologies Standards. This has already been tested on more than 20,000 persons and satisfies the three main requirements: 1) although it causes a mild rash in a few vaccinated children, it has no serious side effects; 2) it produces good antibody levels, and therefore immunity, in more than 90% of those vaccinated...
...Spread. Drs. Meyer and Parkman spent two years growing 77 crops of rubella virus, each "seeded" from the preceding crop. At this point, they inoculated rhesus monkeys with what they called HPV-77 (for high-passage virus). Happily, the vaccinated monkeys showed no signs of rubella, but developed antibody against it, while their cagemates remained free of infection. The first human testing of the vaccine was equally sensitive: the subjects had to be children with no history of rubella, and no possible contact with pregnant women...