Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical preparation has been launched on its lifesaving career under a more brilliant spotlight than the Salk vaccine against paralytic polio. This very glare has made it harder for some to see certain essential facts-the vaccine is not always effective, and its potency is not assured. Now Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME Cover, March 29, 1954) has searchingly reviewed his vaccine's potency and performance. See MEDICINE, Calling the Shots...
...insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began in 1955, overall effectiveness of no more than about 80% in preventing paralytic polio has been claimed (many cases of paralysis have been reported in children who had had three shots...
Sunrise at Campobello. Franklin D. Roosevelt's toughest years of personal ordeal-from the day he contracted polio at Campobello to the day he nominated Al Smith for the presidency. In TORONTO...
While the Salk vaccine proved to be "60% to 90% effective," polio remained, by shifting targets, a major problem. It used to be primarily a disease of the oft-diapered, well-scrubbed upper-income groups, whose infants were protected against the mild (often undetectable) infections that give immunity against later and more serious attacks. Things were different with the infants of the poor, who lived amid filth, got an infection in their first few months while still protected by passive immunity from inherited antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people...
When she was 3½ years old, Renata contracted a case of polio that prevented her from walking until she was six (even today her right leg is still weak, which sometimes hampers her onstage). The polio attack and her father's absence (he returned when she was ten, left again when she was 18) left Renata desperately dependent on her mother. One of the bitterest shocks of her childhood, she remembers, was going to see Giuseppina after a mastoid operation. A surgeon had sliced through a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of her mother's face...