Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts had just pronounced the Salk anti-polio vaccine both safe and effective. Three years ago, University of California Psychologist Robert M. Gottsdanker was delighted when he succeeded in getting one of the first shots for daughter Anne Elizabeth," 5. Equally happy was Engineer Charles Phipps of Monrovia (near Los Angeles), who got a shot for his son James Randall, 15 months...
Within a fortnight, the joy gave way to anguish. The Gottsdanker and Phipps youngsters, like 77 others inoculated with vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption" that the cause of the disease in people getting shots from the six batches was the vaccine itself, promptly tightened up its previously hit-or-miss testing methods to make sure that no more live virus got through...
...paralyzed in both legs, had a heavy brace on one. Randy Phipps dangled a severely disabled left arm. For 27 days, a jury of eight women and four men under Judge Thomas J. Ledwich had heard reams of technical testimony to help them decide: Was the children's polio caused by the vaccine? Was there live virus in the vaccine? If so, was Cutter negligent in letting it get through? Was there, with every ampoule of vaccine, an "implied warranty" that the preparation was safe? On their answers hung suits for $300,000 by the Gottsdankers...
Scolio Club. Each year the Hospital for Special Surgery handles 30 to 40 scoliosis cases-about half of them of unknown cause, most of the others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...putting history on the stage, Schary has discarded the tool of suspense; the audience knows that he will get polio, and it knows that he will recover sufficiently to return to politics. These are the only major events of the play. The danger that the drama might become too talky is scarcely felt, however, as the tensions among developing characters are revealed. Only in the first act is one conscious of the conversation, as Schary tries too hard to show the Roosevelts as "ordinary" types. With only the attack itself to focus on, the act drags occasionally...