Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polio season again. Everywhere, health officials are worrying over reports by the Public Health Service that cases are running ahead of last year, which was bad enough. Actually, it is still too soon to tell how most of the U.S. will fare this year. But there is no doubt that Texas is in the grip of a severe epidemic. No fewer than 860 cases have been reported there since the beginning of the "disease year" in late March (compared with 280 a year ago). Houston, with the rest of Harris County, is especially hard...
...Houston, therefore, that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control...
Meanwhile, for parents who actually have to face the responsibility of handling an attack of polio, there was some sound advice from Manhattan Pediatrician Philip M. Stimson. Until recently, wrote Dr. Stimson in the A.M.A. Journal, all the emphasis was on rushing every suspected case of polio to the hospital at once. Now that there are more facilities for diagnosing and treating polio, this is no longer necessary or even desirable...
...Cigarettes, One Cigar. The Cause is what remains of life for Kurt Schumacher. He has no hobbies, no social friends, little taste or strength for recreation. His home above the Rhine (originally built for a polio victim) has an elevator to carry him from his upstairs bedroom to his downstairs study, and a terrace where on sunny days he reads, dashes off memos and receives a steady stream of callers who come for inspiration, discipline or orders. A lively boxer named Ajax sits at his feet; a charming German widow of 32 is secretary, nurse and traveling companion. "I have...
Rhesus monkeys, imported directly from India, make up much of this Animal Farm's present population. A number of them have been innoculated with polio as part of a current research study. Others have been given mumps and measles...