Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excessive drains upon whole blood reserves for use in combatting polio, and lowered contributions caused by cessation of the Korean fighting caused a state of emergency earlier this year. Reserves have been slowly built up, but are far short of a minimum safe level able to combat some national emergency...
...Microbiologist Selman Waksman announced that German scientists have taken the sting from his drug, actinomycin, turned it into a potential weapon against: 1. Polio...
While he lived at home, the soldier tried hard but vainly to hold his family together. Later, serving with the Army in Japan, he attempted to make a new life of his own, married a Japanese girl. Their baby died of polio before she was a year old, and shortly afterward he and his wife separated. Then he was sent to Korea to fight for the United Nations...
...vaccine be available for every youngster whose worried parents want it. Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which O'Connor calls "a stopgap measure" because it can only make polio less severe, not prevent...
...TIME, Feb. 9). Since the first announcement of his work, Dr. Salk said last week, 474 more subjects, both children and adults, have received the vaccine with no ill effects, and in most cases, with a prompt and dramatic increase in the blood-borne antibodies which give protection against polio. Cautious Dr. Salk made no claim that he had found the answer to the perils and paralysis of polio. There may be several ways of producing a safe and inexpensive polio vaccine, he said, but none is yet ready for general use. That goes for his vaccine...