Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other cures swiftly followed. All that seemed needed was to brush the lame and the halt with a bit of cloth wetted by the tears of the Madonna; a 49-year-old man got back the use of his crippled left arm, a three-year-old girl moved her polio-paralyzed arm, an 18-year-old girl who had been dumb suddenly spoke...
...Public apathy is forcing manufacturers of Salk polio vaccine to destroy hundreds of thousands of doses. About 25 million shots are stockpiled, with little demand during the season of low incidence when the public tends to forget polio. And unused vaccine must be destroyed after six months. Doctors' reminder: anyone beginning a three-shot vaccination series now can finish it before the polio season's summer peak in most...
...Australia, reported Health Minister Donald A. Cameron, the polio vaccination program has been a huge success: 90% of all children under 15 have had some vaccine (made in Australia to the Salk formula) and half have had a full three-shot course. Cases in 1957 numbered only 138, compared with an average of 1,600 in the twelve previous years...
...Fifteen scientists and two laymen who contributed most to the conquest of polio were named by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
Married. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 73, silver-haired Cleveland tycoon (steel, iron ore, coal, railroads); and Cleveland Socialite Anne Kinder Jones, 35, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1946; both for the second time; in Northfield, Ohio...