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...Public Health Service this week summoned its Committee on Live Poliovirus Vaccine to meet on its Bethesda, Md. campus to study reports of the oral vaccines' safety, potency and effectiveness. The evidence for the panel, headed by PHS's Dr. Roderick Murray, was confusing and often contradictory. The consensus: while live-virus vaccines, taken by mouth (as distinct from the killed-virus, Salk-type vaccine, which must be injected), are indeed promising, there is little chance that any will be licensed for general U.S. use until next summer or later...
...these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...
Such personal asides stand out from the bulk of more serious reflections in these reminiscences, originally recorded on tape as part of Columbia University's massive oral history project, which has laboriously recorded for posterity the recollections of 600 prominent Americans. "Whether through weakness or good nature," Justice Frankfurter consented to publication of the interviews while he was still living. Talking for more than 50 hours at various times between 1953 and 1957, in response to brief questions from Columbia Historian Harlan Phillips, Frankfurter rambled on about life, politics, God, Harvard Law School, philosophy, ethics and the quirks...
...Volodia is the real horror-a rugged, athletic subman who despises emotion and can write to his mentor: "I am a human machine. You won't recognize me . . ." The contest between the human machine and the two dreamers is unequal; for Kavalerov and Ivan, the only victories are oral, and they subside into a world of fantasy in which decency and humanity go out in a brave show of courage...
...Biggest consumer of an oral vaccine, mad locally to Sabin specifications, is the U.S.S.R. where 50 million people aged 2 to 20 have already had it, and 30 million more are scheduled to get it this year...