Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enders was a co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that polio virus would grow in human tissue cultures...
...Cold Foundation, all about the researchers' failures, then added: "However, I am confident that we will find the solution to the problem, probably within the next five years." But he dashed hopes for a common-cold vaccine. Since a cold, unlike other virus diseases, e.g., measles, yellow fever, polio, confers only the briefest immunity against reinfection, there seems little chance that an effective vaccine can be prepared. Dr. Dingle's best bet: a drug, still to be discovered, that will knock out the elusive common-cold virus...
...done most in recent years to promote immunization by vaccination was constrained to agree. Said Harvard University's craggy Dr. John F. Enders, Nobel Prizewinner for work that led to the polio vaccine: "It may not be possible to prepare an effective vaccine. It seems to me. too. more likely that an antiviral compound will be discovered...
...life, helping each other overcome mental blocks, trying to find jobs and work out transportation problems. Although most Courage members live in the New York City area, several other cities have already asked to set up chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever...
...Tenley Albright thrives on trouble. She started skating in the first place to speed her recovery from childhood polio. Poised and sure in her dark rose sweater, red flowers bright against her bobbed blonde hair, she swung into her free-skating routine. Gliding to the beat of a bright Offenbach medley, she picked up speed and leaped into a stag (a twisting jump in which the skater takes off backwards, turns, and sails forward, back arched and trailing leg extended...