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...verdict was that the vaccine was generally safe and effective. Normally cautious Epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir of the U.S. Public Health Service reported, on the basis of returns from eleven states plus New York City, that the vaccine had been 75% effective, or better, in preventing paralytic polio among children in the five-to-nine age group, even though many had received only one or two inoculations instead of the desired three...
Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven deaths. Vaccine from a second manufacturer, Pennsylvania's Wyeth Laboratories, was suspected of responsibility for an unstated number of polio cases in the East, but the most rigorous testing by the federal Division of Biologic Standards failed to demonstrate live virus. These cases remained a disguieting mystery...
...started chain reactions. Not all meteorologists will accept this conclusion. Vincent Schaefer, developer of Dry Ice cloud-seeding, says that Project Scud proves only that seeding of one type produces no startling results. It does not prove that other efforts would be ineffective His former boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, asked to participate in Project Scud, but was refused...
...Alexander Langmuir, chief epidemic-fighter for the U.S. Public Health Service, and five assistants left Washington for East Pakistan's capital of Dacca...
...disease detectives of the U.S. Public Health Service, the Lake Vera as signment was little out of the ordinary. In 1952 (its first full year of operation) the Epidemic Intelligence Service answered more than 200 calls for aid from local and state health officials, Dr. Langmuir reported last week. Proudly, he added: "I know of no case where it took more than 24 hours to answer a request." But usually disease was already rife - in 18 outbreaks of infectious jaundice, eight each of poliomyelitis and encephalitis, and odd instances of rarer ills...