Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole was running about 8% ahead of last year: 2,543 cases since the disease year began April 1, as against 2,361. Local health officers were reporting suspected cases more conscientiously than ever, possibly in hopes of winning allocations of gamma globulin. In fact, the polio season was turning into a gamma globulin season...
...crowd pressed in while the bar height was rechecked. It was actually 6 ft. 11 ⅝ if in., but, because the A.A.U. does not reckon with eighths of inches, the new mark was set down at 6 ft. ½ in. Next goal for Davis, a onetime polio victim who took ballet lessons last winter to improve his body control...
...still too soon to tell whether the 1953 polio season will be a severe one or not, but the Public Health Service finds early cases running ahead of last year's. Since the beginning of the "polio year," April 1, there were 1,235 cases compared with 846 for the same period...
...University reported a quicker test for TB. Sputum or spinal fluid from a suspected case is injected into a fertilized egg. Microscopic study within four to six days will show whether tubercle bacilli are present. The current method with cultures or guinea pigs takes four to six weeks. ¶ Polio struck early at Prairie Village, Kans. (pop. 9,500), and, with eight cases reported, the Office of Defense Mobilization allocated 1,000 cc of scarce gamma globulin. Not all exposed children got the shots; injections were given instead to every third or fourth youngster on lower-grade-school rosters...
Twitchell won the 120 high hurdles in 15.2, with Rittenburg second. And he won the 220 low hurdles in 23.5, with Yale's Larry Reno second and Rittenburg third. He took second and Rittenburg third. He took second behind Yale's former polio victim Hank Thresher in both the 100 and 220. Thresher wasn't bothered by anything as he did a sizzling 9.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 220. The latter would have been a record except for the back wind...