Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of us think the Russians are ahead of us in science. More than two years ago Dr. Jonas Salk offered the anti-polio vaccine. The great scientific achievements are those which ease human suffering and cure the mental and organic ailments which plague mankind...
...years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern social problems-how a family reacts when polio strikes, how a man adjusts to blindness, the dilemmas...
...University faculty members have won citations from the Argentine government for "scientific and humanitarian collaboration" during the 1956 polio epidemic in Argentina...
...million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...
...cold. Further testing took until last December, when Researcher Price finally announced isolation of the virus ("We wanted to make sure we really had a cold virus"). By then, Price was already well along in his experimental vaccination program. Using techniques similar to those employed in developing Salk anti-polio .vaccine, Price and his staff grew JH virus in monkey kidney tissue, killed it with formaldehyde to ready it for inoculation. Though development of JH vaccine seems a big step forward in cold prevention, it is far from a sneeze-ending panacea. Pending further studies, the American Medical Association...