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Word: polio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 3,000 students in the University are susceptible to polio this year, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, warned yesterday. He advised students without the full protection of four innoculations to come to 15 Holyoke Street Monday and Tuesday afternoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polio Shots Advised | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...much as doctors and drugs to eradicate preventable disease. But man, he insists, must face hard facts with hardheaded realism. Disease does not surrender unconditionally. The very sanitary techniques that did so much to control infections in the 19th century set the stage for the ravages of polio in the 20th. German measles, once universal in childhood and then only a "trivial accident," now skips many sanitized youngsters; but if a woman gets it in the first three months of pregnancy, she may have a stillborn or malformed child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man & His Ills | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...persons in the University are "urgently" recommended to complete a series of polio vaccinations this year. Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, yesterday urged all students, Faculty members, and employees less than 40 years old to receive the four-injection series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farnsworth Promotes Polio Immunization | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 25, the Chief Justice's youngest daughter, who recovered from a severe polio attack eight years ago, and Stuart Brien, M.D., 36, Beverly Hills obstetrician and gynecologist: their second child, first daughter, Earl Warren's eighth grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Heather. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Uruguay, haunted by memories of 1955-56 when 1,800 adult polio victims died, went all out on oral vaccination last October, got 300,000 people immunized before politicians decided to make an issue of "experimental" vaccine. Their protests had no effect. Last week Uruguayans were still queueing up for it, and no ill effects had been reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live-Virus Vaccine | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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