Word: sabine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...weeks the campaign slogan "SOS -Sabin Oral Sunday" had been hammering the city. Bus drivers wore SOS badges. Newspapers carried front-page exhortations along with editorials and cartoons. SOS signs were plastered on buses and billboards. On the telephone, recorded voices repeated the SOS slogan along with the weather and time...
...goal was to give every Clevelander three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine at monthly intervals between May and August. And Cleveland was reaching that goal with more dispatch than the city's sponsoring Academy of Medicine had considered possible...
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...
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...