Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best results, G.G. must be given very early in the incubation period after exposure to polio. There is no sure way of telling when this is. ¶It is no preventive against polio-only a partial protection against the paralysis caused by polio...
After the mass needling was over, small teams of experts stayed in each area and studied new cases of polio. If the victim was one of the inoculated children, they recorded the code number of the syringe with which he had been inoculated. Then the doctors followed the case to see whether the child's illness developed to the paralytic stage. If so, they noted how severe the paralysis was, and how long it lasted...
...foundation, which checked each victim's syringe number against the manufacturer's list to see whether the child had had G.G. or gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...
...colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951) who tried to use the antibodies in blood against polio 20 years...
...evident missionary zeal, Dr. Hammon was quick to point out that gamma globulin is far from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...