Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free polio vaccine may become available to College students 19 years old and under, under a State law that became effective yesterday. However, the State program, at least for this spring, will furnish vaccine only to expectant mothers and children under...
With this allegory, Dr. Jonas Salk last week sought to turn the nation's thanks toward the many scientists who had worked on polio vaccine before him The occasion: award to Salk, by Health Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, of a specially minted congressional gold medal to honor his "great achievement" in developing the Salk polio vaccine...
...savants' meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair to raise money for the Polio Foundation. Trim as he was in college, Governor Hoegh rose to the challenge, proposed a race of from 40 to 100 yards. Michigan's ex-Oarsman Williams was spoiling for a battle-with reservations: "The contest should be in the nature of a decathlon, to include swimming, rowing, wrestling...
...Tenley Albright, world's champion figure skater and one of the U.S.'s few sure bets for a first place, tripped over a hole in the ice and gashed her leg. But the pretty blonde premedical student, who took up skating to offset the effects of childhood polio, insisted she would be ready for competition. Her physician father, who flew in from the U.S., agreed. Said Tenley: "I'll skate even if the leg is broken...
Health Minister Robert Turton announced that Britain has developed a modified Salk vaccine, which will be available this year for 250,000 to 500,000 children aged two to nine. Main difference from the U.S. anti-polio vaccine: substitution of the milder Brunhilde strain of Type I virus for the more virulent Mahoney strain, on the ground that if any live virus slips through, Brunhilde is less likely to cause serious paralysis...