Word: polio
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Eight University doctors yesterday gave final approval for Massachusetts to participate in one of the biggest public health experiments in history, the nation wide tests of the Salk polio vaccine...
...addition to their role yesterday in approving the polio tests for Massachusetts, Harvard doctors have contributed research indispensable to the large-scale manufacture of the vaccine. Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, and Dr. Leonard R. Robbins, research fellow in Medicine, devised the basic method of tissue culture used in making the serum...
...will just have to wait and see," Dr. Enders said yesterday when asked whether the Salk vaccine will prove the final answer to the polio problem. He explained, however, that the vaccine seems to produce antibodies in the blood which counteract all three kinds of polio...
...participating, whether they are to be vaccinated or used as "observed" (meaning untreated) controls, will be asked to give blood before and after the inoculation program. That, too, is hard for many parents to accept as necessary. But the researchers want to know what happens to the level of polio antibodies in the various groups...
Creek Beds & Sandlots. One of the biggest difficulties results from delay. Before a vaccinated child can win his "Polio Pioneer" button he must have had three shots over a five-week period. For practical reasons these must be completed before the polio season begins and also before school lets out, and that is by June 1 in some states. But no vaccination can begin until next week at the earliest, after the foundation's Vaccine Advisory Committee, headed by the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Thomas M. Rivers, gives a final verdict on the vaccine's safety, based...