Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of Sputnik, etc., I still think the man is Dr. Jonas Salk...
Some of us think the Russians are ahead of us in science. More than two years ago Dr. Jonas Salk offered the anti-polio vaccine. The great scientific achievements are those which ease human suffering and cure the mental and organic ailments which plague mankind...
...four seasons that Salk vaccine has been available, paralytic poliomyelitis has declined in the U.S. by 80%, the Department of Health, Education' and Welfare reported last week. Though some of this dramatic decline might have been coincidental, it was attributed "in major part" to the vaccine. Paralytic cases for the first nine months of 1955 totaled 7,886; so far this year, only...
...common cold. Further testing took until last December, when Researcher Price finally announced isolation of the virus ("We wanted to make sure we really had a cold virus"). By then, Price was already well along in his experimental vaccination program. Using techniques similar to those employed in developing Salk anti-polio .vaccine, Price and his staff grew JH virus in monkey kidney tissue, killed it with formaldehyde to ready it for inoculation. Though development of JH vaccine seems a big step forward in cold prevention, it is far from a sneeze-ending panacea. Pending further studies, the American Medical Association...
After months of chauvinistic resistance against using the U.S. Salk polio vaccine, ostensibly because the British-made vaccine is better and safer (TIME, Aug. 26), the British government finally capitulated last week. Admitting that its own vaccine is in critically short supply, the Public Health Ministry ordered "forthwith" enough Salk vaccine to supplement British vaccine supplies for inoculation of all children under 15 and expectant mothers. The policy reversal came too late to do anything about this year's grim polio season in Britain: 3,732 cases reported through August v. 2,077 for the same period last year...