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...major source of data is Florida's Dade County (Miami and environs), locale for the biggest U.S. field trial of any live-virus vaccine (TIME, Feb. 29). As of April 30, when Florida's polio season was beginning and authorities halted vaccinations to keep test results as clear as possible, no fewer than 413,336 residents had taken a swig of the sweetish, pink vaccine developed by Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald...
Cause & Effect? The first and most vital question was: Is the vaccine safe? Last week Dade's Health Commissioner Turner E. Cato listed seven cases of paralytic polio in the county since vaccine feeding began-about average for the date. Two victims had not taken the vac cine, but five patients (including one severely paralyzed) became ill seven to 14 days after taking it. It may never be possible to tell whether the infection came from the vaccine. If a patient develops paralytic polio about ten days after vaccination, it is extremely difficult to tell where...
Married. Anna Maria Mussolini. 30, the late Duce's fifth and youngest child, a $192-per-month pensioner who has been partially crippled from polio since childhood; and Giuseppe Negri, 24, nightclub M.C.; in Ravenna, Italy...
...suck in fresh air through nostrils at the base, throw off laboratory fumes from stacks that soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles, Kahn gave the researchers clear, unpartitioned studio spaces. His next project: a new research institute in San Diego. Calif, for Polio Vaccine Discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk. which Kahn intends to make "a realm of spaces" where form will truly enhance the institute's function as an academy of biology...
...live-virus men were sure that they had the only means of wiping out both polio and the viruses that cause it. Dr. Salk was sure that killed vaccines have a great future, against many viral diseases besides polio, and can be raised to one-shot effectiveness. After listening to all the arguments, Dr. Cox grumbled with some justification: "The only things you can be sure of are death, taxes and criticism." Said Dr. Bodian: "Maybe we have too many vaccines against polio...