Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Okatie Farms may receive 5,000 or more monkeys a month, the supply never catches up with the demand. After 21 days for rigorous health checks, they are on their way to laboratories in Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Berkeley, Calif...
From South to North. The man behind most of this monkey business (the biggest in history) is Jonas Edward Salk, 39, an intense, single-minded medical researcher who spends his days and a large part of his nights in the University of Pittsburgh's Virus Research Laboratory. Behind Salk. in turn, are Si million of the 3 billion dimes that the U.S. public has given to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...
Like Cherry Soda. Finally passed and put up in little glass bottles, the vaccine is a clear solution the color of cherry soda. But few children will have time to notice this resemblance. In a typical vaccination program at Colfax School in Pittsburgh, jabbering youngsters trooped by classes to the kindergarten room where Dr. Salk's assistants had set up desks and chairs beside tables loaded with labeled test tubes, vaccine bottles and stacks of hypodermic needles...
Consenting Parents. By 1953's end, Dr. Salk had given his vaccine to about 1,000 children and adults in communities around Pittsburgh, with good evidence of an increase in antibodies and no bad reactions. Many doctors, especially state and county health officers who must take responsibility for the trials in their areas, argued that 1,000 cases were not enough to prove the safety of the vaccine or give a valid indication of its effectiveness. They suggested advance trials of 10,000 and 50,000 subjects. This would have meant a full year's delay...
Also, Cincinnati (Nuxhall) 5, Chicago (A) (Trucks) 3; Chicago (N) (Church) 8, Baltimore (Turley) 2; Philadelphia (A) (Trice) 7, Pittsburgh (Law) 5; and Washington (Naranjo) 10, Detroit (Aber...