Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaders in perfecting live vaccines against polio have been the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin (TIME, May 23, 1955), and Dr. Hilary Koprowski. who began the work at Lederle Laboratories, then switched to Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. Dr. Sabin revisited his native Russia in 1956 to report on his early tests, so impressed Soviet medical men that they went to his Cincinnati labs for vaccine samples...
Chumakov began brewing Sabin-type vaccine at the Institute for the Study of Poliomyelitis, a rambling frame building among the railroad yards on Moscow's outskirts. Last week he was readying the world's biggest test of live polio vaccine, had 300 liters on ice-enough for 10 million people. No small operators, Chumakov and colleagues dreamed of immunizing all the Soviet Union's 200 million people regardless of age (600 million doses, since vaccine for one strain of each of polio's three main virus types is given in separate swigs, a month apart). Satellite...
Sabin-type vaccine got a different type of test in Singapore when it was hit by a polio epidemic last August. British-trained Professor James Hale decided to work with Sabin's Type II vaccine. All the polio occurring was of Type I. If any Type II disease showed up, it would be almost certainly due to faulty vaccine. But while Type II vaccine is supposed to give 100% protection only against Type II disease, it is claimed to give about 60% protection against Type I also. As hoped, Type I disease began to decline sharply...
...Portland, Ore. Ross Mudge, 40, almost completely paralyzed by polio, whiles away his time on a special telephone which he dials with a foot pedal. Thousands of other invalids earn their living, attend school or chat with friends on a variety of specially designed phones...
...guard against polio, a three-inoculation series is necessary and "should be started as soon as possible." Dr. Levin pointed out that a fourth inoculation may be needed for full protection by students who completed the series over a year...