Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blackboard seemed to loom over the auditorium at California's Department of Public Health in Berkeley. It also loomed over the nation. For the blackboard charted every case of polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease...
...Natural Sciences program points up two problems that have confronted the University since the beginning of General Education: how to show the scientific specialist a view of science as a whole; and how to give scientific amatuers an understanding of the history, philosophy, and method behind atom bombs and polio vaccines. The specific recommendations of the Council, however, seem calculated more to dramatize the problems than to offer workable solutions...
...across the U.S., the needles were flashing, arms were stinging, and the lollipop business was booming. In and around Atlanta last week, 18,301 youngsters in the first and second grades got the Salk polio vaccine provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In Dallas it was 59,000 youngsters in the first four grades. In hundreds of counties along or near the U.S.'s southern border, where the 1955 polio season is starting, there was the same bustle. Los Angeles and San Francisco also got in under the wire, but the rest of the country was still...
...Labor Day, experts estimated, every child aged one to nine can be vaccinated, plus three-quarters of all under 20. Although polio is rated as a summer disease, about half of all cases each year occur after Labor Day and 40% of them after mid-September. So inoculation, even after Labor Day, would give worthwhile protection...
...public attention is fickle, it is by no means frivolous. The March of Dimes collected millions, carrying polio research through the most expensive part of its job. Dr. Salk, of course, feels that he must continue research to perfect his vaccine. If the U.S. Public Health Service supports his work, as it certainly should, then the March of Dimes organization should mobilize to conquer some other dread disease...