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Shift in Aim. Despite five years of intensive efforts to get everybody in the U.S. Salk-vaccinated (about 300 million shots have been injected), 91 million people still have not had any vaccine. And paralytic polio has been increasing for two years. From 2,500 cases in 1957 it went up to 3,700 in 1958 and 5,500 in 1959. Unaccountably, the disease has shifted its aim: young children, especially under two years old, are now the principal victims. They are concentrated in urban and. rural slums, among Negroes and Puerto Ricans. This is partly explained by the fact...
...only 80% to 90% effective in conferring immunity, said two U.S. Public Health Service experts. Advocates of live-virus vaccines maintain that their preparations, taken in one or three doses, confer immunity in 90% or more of the vaccinated, as measured by laboratory tests of blood antibodies against polio viruses. But do the oral vaccines really give such a high proportional protection against paralysis? And are they safe? On these questions the scientists divided down the middle...
...attacked the third vaccine, developed by the Wistar Institute's Dr. Hilary Koprowski, charging that it contains viruses that cause disease in monkeys and might be dangerous for man.) Dr. Sabin gives his vaccine in three separate doses a month apart-one for each main type of polio virus. Dr. Cox and colleagues give a single swig of trivalent vaccine...
...Salk's ideal, but far better than the commercial average: 91% of vaccinated children were protected by only two shots, a month apart, said Dr. Hilleman. Merck has a licensing application on file in Washington, and wants Government action on it before this year's polio season advances...
...Smith was a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. Picked to make the speech nominating Smith at the 1924 convention, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had been the party's vice-presidential candidate in 1920, and was recovering from his polio attack, applied to him a tag that stuck for the rest of Smith's life. Quoting from an 1807 poem by William Wordsworth, Roosevelt wound up the speech with...