Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newer, airier, and brighter, the nine-year-old Animal Farm of the Division of Infectious Diseases occupies on adjoining building. This house serves the School of Public Health, the Department of Bacteriology, the Children's Medical Center, the Children's Hospital, and the Polio Foundation...
...three-story building in Washington, D.C. last week, a woman whose legs have been withered by polio fitted plastic legs on torn dolls. Nearby, a blind man who had lost his sight in an explosion expertly tacked new upholstery on a frayed Willard Hotel chair. Around them, dozens of other disabled men & women worked busily in the headquarters of the Goodwill Industries of America...
...Bodian carried his experiments a step further. A few minutes before feeding his monkeys live polio virus, he injected reinforcements of human gamma globulin containing polio antibodies into the animals' muscles. None of the monkeys came down with polio in its paralytic form...
...test of gamma globulin in a polio area was made in Utah last summer. Some 5,000 children were given injections of the blood fraction, and another 5,000 were not (TIME, Sept. 10). The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has never announced the results of that test because, it felt they were inconclusive. But this year the foundation is planning to spend close to $1,000,000 for a series of strictly controlled Utahs to learn more...
...best thing the U.S. public can do to help the polio fight this summer, said Dr. Weaver, is to stay away from gamma globulin, except where the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis directs its use in its controlled experiments...