Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chicks are better than monkeys for testing the potency of polio vaccine, researchers have found. Though federal rules now require each vaccine batch to be tested for three weeks on twelve monkeys, the chicks (cheaper and far easier to handle) do a better job in about five days...
without having had polio vaccine. Children not yet vaccinated must start getting shots at once...
Wells also urged that anyone who has not yet been vaccinated against polio make an appointment for a first shot as soon as possible. The second shot follows in about a month. The vaccine is offered free by the state of Massachusetts to anyone under...
...great drive to get 58 million more Americans under the age of 40 vaccinated against polio before the 1957 epidemic season (TIME, March 18) was stalled in its tracks. The difficulty-familiar in the troubled history of polio vaccination since 1954 - was the off -again, on-again supply of vaccine. Last year the vaccine was first scarce, then adequate, then overabundant; at year's end it was backing up in producers' pipelines. By a drastic failure of coordination between industry and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the manufacturers cut back production just when HEW, backed...
Item: children and young adults in Texas should already have had at least two (better, three) shots by this week, when polio begins its annual epidemic advance northward from the Rio Grande. But in El Paso, one of the cities where polio normally breaks out earliest, the program was off indefinitely, and it was bogged down in Houston and Dallas...