Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaccine was made by the same process as the Salk polio vaccine, using formaldehyde to inactivate the virus. The virus is one of the group that doctors ponderously call adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival (from the tissues it attacks), or APC* for short. This particular APC virus causes sore throat, eye inflammation, and a fever lasting about five days...
...Virologist Robert Davies Defries 56 University of Toronto, for leadership in preventive medicine-his laboratories brewed most of the virus used in the Salk 1954 polio vaccine, made the bulk of Canada's 1955 vaccine...
...committee's work has been directed towards helping the polio patients in Boston's hospitals. An educational program is planned whereby students from the graduate school of Education and the Boston School of Ocupational Therapy will teach manual and fine arts to the victims of this summer's polio epidemic, he explained...
...Republic of Korea health officials record 2,053 cases this year, 766 deaths. Japan reports 3,386 cases, 1,194 deaths-Japanese B far outstrips diphtheria, cholera, typhus and polio as a killer. After giving up to 500,000 inoculations with a killed-virus vaccine which proved too weak to be effective, the U.S. Army is now ready to begin laboratory testing of a greatly improved vaccine which may lick Japanese B entirely for Americans in the Orient. But even if it works (which will take years to determine), the Japanese themselves are not likely to benefit. In the homeland...
...strength of reports through late October, the Public Health Service predicted last week that the 1955 U.S. polio epidemic will prove to have been the lightest in four years. So far reported: 25,727 cases v. 33,078 for the same period in 1954. Projecting to the calendar year's end.* PHS foresaw a total of about 29,000 cases-in the same range as 1951's low tally of 28,386. Equally encouraging: the polio mortality rate in 1955 is expected to be the lowest in several years, with 750 to 800 deaths v. 1,500 last...