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...mutant Asian strain of flu virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts...
...Formed by God--Deformed by Man" reads the caption to a photographic display of mutant canines and scientic "torture" techniques in the plate glass window...
...ready with any vaccine, promised to send 500,000 shots, free, to doctors for themselves and their nurses or assistants - enough to take care of all the 180,000 U.S. physicians in private practice and their staffs. Though Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of PHS was convinced that the mutant Asian strain of type A virus had by now been "seeded" in every state of the union (20,000 to 25,000 cases have so far been reported in the U.S.), there was no way of predicting when or where the expected epidemic would first break out. Any time from...
...Gets It & When. These disquieting facts emerged last week from a conference on flu and vaccination prospects sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. Nub of the problem: the U.S. population has no immunity against this new mutant strain (TIME, June 24), can gain immunity only from contracting the disease itself or from preventive inoculation with a new vaccine prepared especially to combat it. Despite the best efforts of medical men and vaccine manufacturers around the world, there will not be time enough to immunize more than a fraction of the U.S. population before the disease strikes in force...
...TIME, June 24), broke out in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...