Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversely, the same facts indicate that it is unrealistic to talk of breeding humans resistant to sunburn, polio, smallpox, or any non-hereditary defects except in inconsequential numbers, Ingalls said. Although a tendency toward or immunity to certain defects is inherited, the genesis of the defect itself is open to question, he said...
...Massachusetts Polio Advisory Committee will not approve any further use of the Salk vaccine at this time, the group announced yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Enders, who with Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins of Western Reserve won the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing the polio virus, cautioned that there was "nothing permanent" about the decision. Enders added that "everything points to ultimate success for the Salk vaccine...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Service, suggested that students with an opportunity to be inoculated wait until February or March before making a decision. He felt that much more would be known then, and added that before late spring there was no great cause to fear polio...
While a spirit of clinical professionalism predominates at Massachusetts General, one of light-hearted efficiency prevails at Children's Hospital. The good-humored approach, correctly geared to keep young polio patients cheerful, has had direct effect on the role of College and Radcliffe Volunteers. The PBH group of 30 accounts for slightly more than half the volunteer force that works under the hospital's Recreational Services Department. Karla Perce '57 one of Radcliffe's 37 Volunteers, finds the surgical wards have "a relaxed but nor chaotic atmosphere. We're always kidding around with the children and no one ever gets...