Word: polio
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Soon, however, Morris again began to make his superiors uncomfortable. He asked whether slow-acting viruses in seemingly safe vaccines might cause serious illness decades after inoculation. He suggested that one now influenza vaccine might cause tumors, and charged that a major cell strain in which polio vaccine is grown was contaminated...
Died. Connee Boswell, 68, innovative songstress of the Big Band era, whose recordings of such hits as Whispers in the Dark and They Can't Take That Away from Me sold more than 75 million copies; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boswell, stricken by polio as a child, sang from a wheelchair, but her long gowns were often artfully draped to create the illusion that she was standing up. She began her career as one of the three Boswell sisters. Continuing solo following her sisters' marriages, in 1936 she starred on radio, was featured on Broadway and appeared...
...Informant. Almost no one in Washington believed that Jerry Ford would ever pocket campaign funds. Yet neither would anyone accuse the highly respected Ruff, a Democrat, of acting rashly or for partisan purposes. A polio-paralyzed associate law professor at Georgetown University, Ruff, 37, belonged to the staff that dug into illegal corporate political contributions during Watergate and brought Richard Nixon's top aides to trial. He also successfully prosecuted United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle for illegal campaign contributions...
...Polio is a disease of highly sanitized communities. For thousands of years, the majority of children playing in dirty streets picked up the virus and developed their own antibodies. As Americans became more and more concerned about child hygiene, whole generations matured with no immunity. The numbers of reported cases rose, until in 1952 there were 57,879 confirmed cases and 3,145 deaths. Parents suffered perennial panics...
...with the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, the epidemics and panics ended almost overnight. In 1975 there were only eight proven cases of polio in the U.S., and only one death. The most distinctively American of all epidemics has been conquered...