Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...year from the Indians, and on the side coined money from half a dozen other business ventures, even had himself incorporated (Ro-Fel Inc.) in the state of Ohio. He also slipped gracefully into the role of solid citizen, last year headed Ohio's polio-fund drive...
Some doctors have urged therapeutic abortion when expectant mothers contract German measles. Dr. Ingalls had a more positive suggestion: let the virologists, who have worked such wonders with other viruses (e.g., polio), redouble their efforts to isolate the German-measles virus; then the disease could be given by needle to all girls-one attack means lasting immunity. Meanwhile, if any girl has friends or family with German measles, try to make sure that she catches...
Nobody ever seriously expected the Salk vaccine to be 100% successful in preventing illness, paralysis or death from polio. But last September, news stories reported that, according to the U.S. Public Health Service, no child had died of polio after receiving the full course of three shots of Salk vaccine. In fact, at the time, the PHS already knew about one such death in July. A five-year-old boy who had been given his three shots died in Indiana ten minutes after admission to a hospital with a diagnosis of bulbar polio. Last week a second (and fully confirmed...
Alongside Pasche sat Corry Riet, 31, of Zaandam, The Netherlands, who was paralyzed by polio at the age of five. When it became clear that she would never regain the use of her arms, Corry Riet learned to hold a brush with her teeth, took lessons from a landscapist. She makes a comfortable income from her paintings, calendars and greeting cards...