Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Health Services will continue to give polio shots, on a first come, first served basis, from two to four p.m. today, at 15 Holyoke St. Third shots will also be given...
...first day of "Polio Shot Week" begins at 2 p.m. today. Inoculations will be given without appointment at 15 Holyoke St. to students at the College and all graduate schools except Law, Business, and Medicine...
...possible dangers of being vaccinated against polio, and the opposite dangers of not being vaccinated, both became legal issues last week. ¶ Palmer Lee Martin, 41, filed a $300,000 damage suit in Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit...
...University "Polio Shot Week" will be launched next Tuesday, Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., assistant physician to the University Health Services, announced last night. The mass inoculations will continue for four days...
According to Wells, the national demand for polio vaccine during April was higher than the available supply. Drug companies, however, have recently stepped up production to meet this demand. "But the supply available to us is certainly not unlimited, and a few might be disappointed," Wells continued. "If the supply lasts, we hope to hold mass inoculations again during the first week of June...