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Last week Merck & Co. of Rahway, N.J., which committed $2,500,000 worth of its goods to the ransom, announced that it figured to come out ahead after taking its tax deductions. Just how much ahead, Merck did not say; in any event, the company said that it plans to turn over the profits to charity, on behalf of medical research...
...studies, sending his virus strains for field trials abroad where they would not interfere with the results of the Salk program. At the end of 1959, almost half the U.S. population had received a Salk shot, and already the occurrence of polio had dropped 80%. By the same time, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories had shipped Sabin's live virus doses to Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Malaya, Singapore, and the U.S.S.R. Over ten million people were vaccinated in these countries, while in the Belgian Congo 2.2 million took another live virus vaccine, developed by Dr. Herald...
...Merck & Co.,Rahway,N.J.,$2,501,640; Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis...
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...virus which occurs naturally in primates (rhesus and related monkeys) has been shown capable of causing cancer. Both Merck & Co. virologists and Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health, who reported similar results, had to go back to hamsters to start their cancers growing, but there was no doubt that they got their effects with a virus, known variously as the vacuolating agent and SV (for simian virus) 40. It is the first primate virus shown to cause cancer in any animal...