Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old son - had his polio shot . . . and seven days later, he got sick," Mrs. R. M. Adams of Puenten, Calif, wrote to us. She added an hour-by-hour report on her son's symptoms and made a fervent appeal for advice about polio vaccine. "I'm writing to you because TIME is the only place we were able to get any good information." Other worried mothers, we have heard, were told by family physicians: "You can get as much information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical...
...nation's top polio experts and health authorities got around last week to telling the public what had gone wrong, and how and why, with the grandiose plan to inoculate tens of millions of children with Salk polio vaccine in 1955. For the most part, they confirmed what critics have suspected for a long time: it was a mistake to try the whizbang jump in little more than a year from laboratory production of the vaccine to manufacturing in tank-car volume. Many vital facts simply were not known when the leap to factory-scale production was made...
Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele of the U.S. Public Health Service and his deputy, James Shannon, picked a polio symposium at the American Medical Association's convention in Atlantic City as the forum for their first report. Then Dr. Scheele released a 163-page "white paper" for President Eisenhower. After that, he and Shannon spelled out for the press the detailed meaning of their revelations. The week's main disclosures...
...wise to give children their first shots in August and September, months that mark the height of the polio season in virtually all the U.S.? This question involves a cruel choice: vaccine given in August may give life-saving protection against polio in September. But any injection at that time may provoke a paralytic reaction from virus already smoldering in the system, which might otherwise have done no harm. As of last week, most Government experts seemed inclined to go ahead anyway, but many a doctor was doubtful. Newark and other New Jersey cities postponed vaccinations...
While the vaccine program was virtually halted last week, waiting for the Public Health Service to retest and release more of the dammed-up vaccine from manufacturers' warehouses, polio was speeding its seasonal march. Latest figures showed a week's total of 240 cases, the same as a year ago, but almost double the five-year average for the corresponding week. Since the disease year's beginning (April 1), there were 1,226 cases (113 of them after vaccination*), and the same comparisons held. It was too early for the figures to prove anything, but there...