Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measles, a sometimes dangerous illness that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...
Sunrise at Campobello (by Dore Schary) extends from Aug. 10, 1921 to June 26, 1924-from the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio to the moment when he rose, at the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, to nominate Al Smith for President. The interval between represents a catastrophe in F.D.R.'s life out of which he forged a victory; it has thus all the contours of the classically beleaguered hero. In addition, Sunrise at Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning...
...plaintiffs' resourceful, aggressive Attorney Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli (pronounced bell-eye). Though Dr. Salk expressed no overt criticism of Cutter, if the jury believed him it had to conclude that something went wrong at Cutter. For Salk stuck doggedly to his view that the killing of polio virus with formaldehyde solution to make a safe vaccine is a "first-order reaction" and that its progress and its end point (when there should be not a single particle of live virus left) can be predicted and plotted with a straight-line graph on logarithmic paper...
...Straight Line? The University of California's famed Virologist Wendell M. Stanley took sharpest issue with Salk. A Nobel Prizewinner himself for original work in crystallizing viruses. Stanley flatly denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have seen many times where the curve does not follow that theory," he said-and not only in his own laboratory, but also in big vaccine factories. As for the testing methods before the "incident," Dr. Stanley declared: "In the light of subsequent knowledge, they were grossly inadequate." The implication: given...
...close contacts (mostly kin) of those who got the vaccine. There were eleven deaths. Vaccine from Wyeth Laboratories was suspected of causing several cases of polio but no live virus was found...