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...incorrect. Vaccines against smallpox, yellow fever, measles (rubeola) and mumps contain live attenuated viruses -all are given by injection. In fact, the Sabin oral polio vaccine is the only commonly used live-virus vaccine in the U.S. not given by injection...
...Philadelphia's Wistar Institute noted at a Manhattan conference last week that while the virus in HPV77 is attenuated, it is still alive. This, he said, would be the first live-virus vaccine against any disease ever licensed to be given by injection. (The Sabin live-virus polio vaccine is taken by mouth.) Plotkin also noted that some lines of HPV-77 are grown in cultures of monkey-kidney cells, which may be contaminated by other, and dangerous, viruses. Not surprisingly, Wistar has its own vaccine, also live-virus but grown in cultures of human cells and therefore free...
...setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only trouble was that in lonely Torresdale, ''there was no one to play with. I became perhaps the outstanding solitary baseball player of my generation." When he was 14, a polio attack "interrupted that unpromising career...
...Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best pediatric clinics in the Arab Middle East. Mrs. Vester, herself a Presbyterian, capped a distinguished career in 1963 by obtaining enough polio vaccine from the U.S. to inoculate 300,000 Jordanian children...
...company's painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made...