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...growing suspicion that mem bers of the herpes family of viruses may play a role in human cancer (TIME, April 23) was heightened even more last week by the revelations of a noted medical researcher. Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine, told the National Academy of Sciences that the herpes simplex Type I virus (responsible for cold sores) may also cause cancers of the lip, mouth and throat, while the herpes Type II virus (which causes genital infections and has already been associated with cancer of the cervix) should also be considered suspect in other cancers...
...Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president of the American National Red Cross for a time, O'Connor made the National Foundation his life's work. With the threat of polio virtually eliminated by the early '60s, the foundation turned to combatting birth defects and arthritis...
There is also anxiety that the current antipathy toward laboratory work may slow the process of the basic research that has produced so many of the advances in modern medicine. Asks one Manhattan physician: "Where will we find the next generation's Albert Sabin if no one goes into research...
Through exchanges of men and ideas, the Weizmann Institute has played an important role in Israel's small but determined foreign-aid program. Such activities may expand when Dr. Albert Sabin, the developer of oral polio vaccine, takes over as president next January. Israel, he told a 25th anniversary banquet in New York last month, is "a pilot plant for the hundreds of millions of people living in ever greater poverty and misery" around the world...
...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...