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...notice. Attendance at the ballpark dropped from a normal 30,000 to 11,000; business at parks and beaches dwindled to a standstill. The city was otherwise occupied. At schools, police stations and fire houses, thousands queued up for the privilege of swallowing sugar cubes impregnated with drops of Sabin oral polio vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wiping Out Polio | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Success in Measles. An ever more insistent backer of live-virus vaccines, Enders was a bit dismayed that the U.S. took up killed-virus polio vaccine with such zest. He experimented for a while attenuating poliovirus, sent a sample to the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (who went on to make workable live-virus polio vaccines), then turned back to basic research. In 1954 another of his research fellows, Thomas Peebles, fulfilled Enders' longstanding dream of growing measles virus (obtained from a prep school student named David Edmonston) in tissue culture. This time, aiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ultimate Parasite | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...Public Health Service last week licensed the manufacture of a live-virus vaccine, to be taken by mouth for protection against one of the three types of poliomyelitis. Developed by the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin, the licensed vaccine is manufactured in England by a subsidiary of New York's Charles Pfizer & Co., which will distribute it in the U.S. Since it is the first oral vaccine approved for general distribution, its licensing would seem to be a major step forward in the battle against polio. But the effect of the Government action was to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Free-for-AII | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Waiting Till Spring. The monkey-brain test is admittedly arbitrary, because no human being is likely ever to get the vaccine that way, even by accident. So some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain to block general release of any oral vaccine this year except for an emergency stockpile for Government controlled use in epidemics. The National Foundation's Basil O'Connor snorted: "It is totally unorthodox to license part of a vaccine." Some manufacturers guessed that release of Type III oral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Free-for-AII | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...Albert Sabin, medical researcher, developer of oral polio vaccine . . . . . . . Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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