Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This survey," Donham stated, "proved that there are 10 per cent more victims of alcoholism than there are victims of tuberculosis, and 225 per cent more victims of alcoholism than of than of polio among workers in business and industry...
...Harvard the Russians, studying the treatment of polio, will visit Thomas H. Weller, Richard Strong Professor of Public Health, Albert H. Coone, Visiting Professor of Bacteriology, and Monree D. Eston, professor of Bacteriology...
...Three -and - a -half -month -old Daniel Patrick Benson, believed to be the first child ever born with polio in the U.S., was reported showing improvement as he posed for his first photograph with his mother, Mrs. Patricia Benson, a 26-year-old Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb...
Four Soviet Medical scientist will tour the Medical School to study methods of polio treatment and preparation of Salk vaccine after they arrive in the U.S. this week. They may also visit the College...
Massachusetts, which had the worst polio year in its history in 1955 (3,900 cases), called a stop to public vaccination programs. But this week the Massachusetts State Poliomyelitis Advisory Committee is due to issue a report that, doctors believe, may clear the Salk vaccine of any blame in the epidemic and revive the state's vaccine program. With that report, and the stepping up of all vaccine programs in the months ahead, officials hope that public response will be better before the polio season approaches...