Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert S. Hurley were to wait in the cockpit after landing at Pittsburgh until the senior agent knocked at the door. There was no explanation. Capital had alerted Dr. Allison J. Berlin to meet the plane at Pittsburgh, and he had already conferred by phone with Virus Expert Jonas Salk, who was at a meeting in New York City. Salk's advice: give each member of the crew, and the baggage smashers in Baltimore and Washington, a double dose of gamma globulin and a dose of polio vaccine, and disinfect the plane. The passengers were allowed to take their...
...Capital began second-guessing. Had the volatilized virus been circulated by the plane's ventilating system? Nobody could be sure. Capital ordered the plane back to Washington for decontamination by the Army Chemical Corps and phoned the 22 Pittsburgh passengers, advising them to take the same shots as Salk had recommended for the crew. It advised the 124 later passengers to get a checkup with a physician, at Capital's expense...
...blood pressure; of 630 who added salt sometimes after tasting food, 43 had the disease; among 581 who always added salt without bothering to taste, 61 had it. ¶ Studies at the University of Michigan's Child Health Conference (Well-Baby Clinic) answered a bedeviling question: Is the Salk polio vaccine as effective among infants and pre-school children as among the first-and second-graders on whom it was first tried? Said the researchers, after testing 133 infants and 116 kindergartners on various inoculation schedules: yes. ¶ One of the commonest features of heart disease is congestive heart
...British test was as elaborate as the famed U.S. Salk vaccine trials in 1954, though not as extensive. In London, Birmingham and Manchester 56,700 high school children of 14 to 15½ took part: 13,300, who reacted negative to the tuberculin test, were left unvaccinated as controls; 14,100 more received BCG vaccine; 6,700 got another type of vaccine, vole bacillus.* Another 22,600 children, all of whom showed positive in tuberculin tests, were left unvaccinated as a second group of controls for comparison...
...still little medical evidence as to how well the pills work. The manufacturers report customer satisfaction in two-thirds to three-fourths of cases, but there is no way of knowing how much of this is due to suggestion. One of the more convincing testimonials: Palm Springs Veterinarian Herman Salk (brother of Vaccine Maker Jonas Salk) reports that Equanil is dandy for neurotic dogs, changes them in a couple of days from biting, man-hating monsters into lovable rovers...