Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lift a hand to play his cards, because he was paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung...
...Nobel Prize winner John F. Enders of the Medical School reported last night that the research methods he used in isolating the polio virus have now led to the first possible development of a preventive vaccine against messes...
...said he had "very suggestive" evidence that he has isolated and grown the long-sought measles virus. The technique used, he stated, is essentially the same "tissue culture" method that he and his associates developed in paving the way for the Salk polio vaccine...
...isolated--and for the first time grown in a laboratory--the elusive virus will be delayed until Enders returns from receiving his Nobel award in Stockholm in December. He, Dr. Thomas Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, were awarded the $36,066 prize for their work in developing the polio vaccine...
...Polio virus research that won three University faculty members Nobel prizes has encouraged the setting up of a three-year $500,000 program of investigation into the causes of the common cold, also believed to be a virus. Part of the program may be carried on at the University...