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...bacterial pneumonia vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday "will have limited application in this community because the incidence of bacterial pneumonia here is very low," Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of University Health Services, said yesterday...
Instead of a win-loss box score, however, the 1977 Crimson cross-country story should read like an injury chart, tallying Stein Rafto's never-ceasing knee troubles, and pointing out that Thad McNulty lost his hamstring, Noel Scid-more came down with pneumonia and Mark Meyer sprained his ankle...
When penicillin and other antibiotics were introduced more than a generation ago, doctors felt they had finally won the fight against the most common form of bacterial pneumonia. But the tiny spherical pneumococcus bacteria have proved a stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...just as the pneumococci seem to be gaining the upper hand, medical researchers have developed a powerful new weapon against them. Last week doctors at the University of California in San Francisco reported spectacular success in inoculating a group of 77 vulnerable youngsters with a prototype pneumonia vaccine. All had sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disorder largely confined to blacks that, besides inflicting other damage, impairs the spleen's ability to filter dangerous bacteria out of the blood. Even after two years, Dr. Arthur J. Ammann and his colleagues said, not a single patient had developed a pneumococcus infection...
...expected to authorize commercial production of the vaccine before year's end. At first shots will probably be recommended only for those at highest risk: people over 50, victims of chronic ailments, and those confined to crowded, epidemic-prone areas like military bases. But eventually, protection against bacterial pneumonia may become as common as vaccinations against smallpox...