Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death rate) of a disease for which medical science has no cure...
...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...
...Live-polio-virus vaccines, in wide use outside the U.S., are still not really safe for general use as a public-health measure, says Baylor University's Dr. Joseph Melnick after a study of such vaccines. Melnick told the fifth Congress of Biological Standardization in Jerusalem that, while there have been relatively few cases of paralytic polio among those vaccinated with live-virus vaccines, some of the virus strains, after they pass through the human body, become more virulent. It is possible that contact with virus-infected excrement could spread polio to unvaccinated persons. His recommendation: until the stability...
...developer of polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk-Townsend Harris High School, New York City...
...With polio on the rise and proportionately more paralytic cases in 1959 than in any year since vaccinations became general, the National Foundation determined to nail down the vaccine's effectiveness. Last week it announced the encouraging results of a check on the year's first 624 cases in which detailed vaccination histories were available. Of the 4.9 million children under five (the most susceptible age group) who had received no Salk shots, 298 got paralytic polio, for a rate of 6 per 100,000. Of the 10.4 million who had had three or more shots, only...