Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polio and flu vaccinations will be administered to students and faculty at 15 Holyoke St. throughout the rest of the term, Dr. Orrin Levin announced yesterday. Polio inoculations will be given Mondays and Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10-11 a.m. Flu vaccinations will be administered daily...
Those who had three polio shots over a year ago were also urged to come for a booster shot on Mondays or Tuesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. or Wednesdays or Thursdays from 10 to 11 a. m. Those who have not yet had all three Salk shots are asked to report very soon. Parental permission is advised...
Beef It Up. This kind of trouble is unavoidable with any killed-virus preparation, but was intensified in the case of polio vaccine early in the 1955 vaccination season when about 200 cases of polio were blamed on infective vaccine. The U.S. Public Health Service and the manufacturers understandably redoubled their efforts to make the vaccine safe. They succeeded-there has been no such disaster since-but at the cost of an equally desirable increase in the vaccine's potency...
...This knocks out the usual excuse for the commercial vaccine's failures. So the mass-produced vaccine must be beefed up to the potency level of his laboratory brand. But Dr. Salk also conceded defects in the design of the vaccine itself. It contains three strains of polio virus for the three broad types that can independently cause disease- Mahoney for Type I, MEF-1 for Type II. and Saukett for Type III. About 80% of paralytic polio used to be caused by Type I strains; of the balance, Type III caused slightly more than half, leaving Type...
Booster Now. Other symposium speakers agreed that the most urgent next step in the anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this...