Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shouted through a bill authorizing the Surgeon General of the U.S. to assist the states through grants-in-aid in providing free polio vaccine to persons under 20 and to expectant mothers. As sent to the House of Representatives, the bill left the specific amount of aid open for future appropriations...
After weeks of hesitation over whether to start a small test program with Salk polio vaccine and a few thousand volunteers, Britain's health authorities made up their minds last week. They canceled the whole thing as too dangerous. Said Dr. Graham Selby Wilson, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service: "I do not see how any vaccine prepared by [Dr. Jonas] Salk's method can be guaranteed to be safe...
...Last in the national spotlight in 1935, after he developed a primitive vaccine against polio that was given to 10,000 children. Nine cases of polio, some fatal, were attributed to defects in the vaccine...
...Public Health Service released 300,000 shots of Salk polio vaccine, first to be approved in more than a month. Significantly, PHS also announced a major research program aimed at improving the Salk vaccine, mainly by using other strains of virus (than the dangerous Mahoney) and by improving tests for potency and safety tests in monkeys...
...Paralytic polio can be readily confirmed and even the puzzling cases of nonparalytic polio can be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy by new tissue-culture techniques, the A.M.A. Journal reported. Dr. Mary Godenne and John T. Riordan worked out the method at Yale University. It can be adopted by any big hospital laboratory with facilities for handling viruses, should go a long way to remove uncertainties in diagnosing, reporting and treating polio...