Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head and wriggling it vigorously or pumping an arthritic arm up and down. "I ask the Lord to deliver our sister here from sugar in her blood," he cries. "Heavenly Lord, take the head noises away from this woman." Last week outside Harrisburg, Pa., an emaciated youth afflicted by polio and epilepsy rose unsteadily from his pallet after Roberts touched him on the first night of a 10-day crusade. "Oh, Jesus," moaned the crowd. "There he goes...
Seldom had the U.S. seen its scientists in sharper public disagreement-and on a matter so immediately involving the health of millions. After a closed huddle in Manhattan, a committee of 26 polio and public-health experts last week publicly agreed with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that inoculations of Salk vaccine should continue through the summer polio season. The probable benefits, the committee reasoned, outweighed the possible hazards. In Washington four days later, Tennessee's James Percy Priest called 15 topflight vaccine experts before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Science...
...last week, 900,000 Canadian youngsters had been inoculated without a single proved case of polio resulting from the vaccine. The greatest and most significant technical difference between U.S. and Canadian methods was that all vaccinations in Canada had been given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. This greatly lessened the likelihood that paralytic polio would be provoked by jaBbing a needle into muscle and nerves...
...hard not to be smug. (The British are not using the Salk vaccine at all, except in a limited test.) Admitted the Canadians gallantly: "With a larger number of children vaccinated, we might have got into trouble, too." Said Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes, one of Canada's top polio experts: "A safe and effective vaccine can be produced. [But] a great deal of work has yet to be done...
...single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long-range Constellations...