Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a medical genius, a laboratory man, chemist or physician discovers the substance which, in the form of a capsule, will capture the sources of energy that will bring recovery within hours." ¶Among children who have received the full course of three spaced shots of the Salk polio vaccine, not one death from the disease has been reported this year, said the U.S. Public Health Service...
While most state and all federal health officials decided to wait until November before trying to assay the effectiveness of polio vaccination in 1956, Oregon's board of health got a jump on them last week by reporting its program a huge success. Among 350,000 Oregonians who have received at least one shot of Salk vaccine, there have been only 30 cases of polio in 1955 and 1956 to date, for a rate of less than 9 per 100,000. Among 1,340,000 unvaccinated there have been 480 cases, for a rate four times as high...
...University and Radcliffe students will be eligible for inoculations with Salk Anti-Polio Vaccine under programs announced yesterday by the Harvard University Health Service and the Radcliffe Health Center...
...weeks after it started, Chicago's polio emergency (TIME, July 30) appeared to be slackening off. So far, said the U.S. Public Health Service, there have been 810 cases, of which 501 were paralytic. There have been 21 deaths. Even if the outbreak is brought under control in another fortnight, as doctors hope it will be, it still makes this the second worst polio year in Chicago's history (the worst: 1952). Only bright spot: not a single case of paralytic polio has cropped up among people who have received the full, three-shot Salk immunization...
Since the ambitious program to inoculate U.S. children with Salk polio vaccine got under way 16 months ago, the U.S. Public Health Service has allocated the vaccine to each state to ensure a fair distribution. Last Week, as his last official act as Surgeon General, Dr. Scheele took note of plentiful supply, ended Government control. Now the vaccine will flow through commercial channels directly to areas where demand is greatest...