Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl A. Hedberg '57, another pre-med, centers his attention on MGH doctors whom he sees in action in the adult polio wards. Hedberg envies the doctors' insights into patients problems," "I must admit I feel frustrated sometimes," he says, "because the doctors do the real work while I just watch...
...Medical School, will be one of the convention's featured attractions on Friday when he delivers a paper on "The Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases." Dr. Weller, who is Strong Professor at the School of Public Health and shared in the Nobel Prize last year for his work on the polio virus, will present the results of his study on "Enteric Viruses" at the conference. More than a score of other doctors from the Schools of Medicine and Public Health will deliver papers at the convention on topics ranging from "The Cause and Prevention of Congenital Anomalies" to "A Physician...
...verdict was that the vaccine was generally safe and effective. Normally cautious Epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir of the U.S. Public Health Service reported, on the basis of returns from eleven states plus New York City, that the vaccine had been 75% effective, or better, in preventing paralytic polio among children in the five-to-nine age group, even though many had received only one or two inoculations instead of the desired three...
...York State (outside the city), with a massive 450,000 children inoculated, had telling figures: the paralytic-polio rate among the unvaccinated was 21 per 100,000, but only four per 100,000 among the vaccinated. In nonparalytic polio, the protection ratio was only about 3 to 2, but final returns were expected to show that the disease had been milder, on the average, in vaccinated children. Chicago was unofficially reported to have had only two cases of paralytic polio per 100,000 among the vaccinated, as compared with 32 among the unvaccinated...
Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven deaths. Vaccine from a second manufacturer, Pennsylvania's Wyeth Laboratories, was suspected of responsibility for an unstated number of polio cases in the East, but the most rigorous testing by the federal Division of Biologic Standards failed to demonstrate live virus. These cases remained a disguieting mystery...