Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three doctors were cited in the announcement for their discovery of "the ability of poliomyelitis to multiply in tissue from primates." It was this finding, made in 1949 at the Children's Medical Center, Boston that made possible the growth of enough polio virus to produce the Salk vaccine currently being used in mass inoculations throughout the country...
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Enders, who headed the three-man research team, described the group's accomplishment this way: "The tissue- culture method which we showed could be applied to the growing of polio virus is the one now used in producing vaccine...
Before their discovery, Dr. Weller explained, polio virus had never been grown on non-nervous tissues, and all research had to be done on monkeys, an expensive procedure. Under the new virus-growth method, however, "one test tube culture has replaced one monkey," and mass production of polio vaccine is now feasible, Dr. Wells said...
...answer to the question: "How close are we to a cue for polio?", Enders yesterday said that "a cure is not very near, but there is a good possibility that we may soon be able to prevent the disease...
Died. Clarke S. Ryan, 31, an assistant U.S. Attorney under Thomas F. Murphy, who, after Murphy resigned to become New York City police commissioner, took over the Government's case against Alger Hiss; of polio; in Manhattan...