Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hundreds of thousands of children in different parts of the U.S. will receive experimental shots of polio vaccine early next year, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced last week. Plans for the first mass-testing of a vaccine against poliomyelitis are now being made. The shots will have to be given by the end of May so that the vaccine will have time to do its work (if it can) before the epidemic season starts...
Finally-and so far the most important-was gamma globulin, which prevents measles or softens its severity, and wards off infectious hepatitis. Most recently, gamma globulin has won fame in the fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...
...Cohn aided in the development of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia, serum albumin for use in cases of battlefield and accident shock, and several other medically important blood products. His work led directly to the recent discovery of gamma globulin as an immunizing agent against polio...
...polio season apparently passed its peak in the third week of August, about a fortnight earlier than usual, said the Public Health Service. But with 18,825 cases reported thus far, 1953 will still rank as a high polio year. Only 1952 (26,016 cases) and 1949 (22,756) had more reported cases at the same date...
...LeRoy Neumayer, 23, a Compton. Calif, mechanic, who drove a 300-plus h.p. Class B (305 to 488 cu. in.) streamliner owned by auto supply shop operator Chet Herbert, 25, who used to race hotrods himself until he was stricken with polio. The records: a blazing 233.31 m.p.h. for five miles, 230.53 m.p.h. over a ten-kilometer distance...