Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest breakthrough in the long stalemated war against polio was announced last week...
...William McDowell Hammon, Pittsburgh epidemiologist, told the American Public Health Association in Cleveland that "significant protection" against the paralyzing effects of polio can be given by inoculating children in epidemic areas with gamma globulin...
...Which? Dr. Hammon was reporting on results of the $1,000,000 tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
...little children have been screaming "I Like Ike." "Well, they can't vote," said one reporter. Another commented that lately there were fewer little hecklers in the crowds. "It's a good thing," said one of the press secretaries. "We were already to send an advance car to spread polio germs...
...Polio paralysis...