Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Children's Hospital followed logical scientific methods to discover the long-sought method of cultivating polio virus in a test-tube. Although their methods were only a slight modification of a research technique first introduced in 1907, they produced a discovery sufficiently significant to inspire the nation-wide Salk Vaccine campaign...
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Once the viruses could be grown, the doctors conferred with Dr. Jonas Salk of Pittsburgh on the best method of neuralizing the adverse effects of the polio. He exposed the viruses to formal dehyde to destroy their infectivity. His hope and conviction is that they will enable an innoculated body to build up lasting antibodies...
Enders points out that the eventual success of the Salk Vaccine will depend upon how well it can build up antibodies within the central nervous system, as well as in the body itself. "We know the vaccine gets into the blood system, but it has not been absolutely demonstrated that it reaches the nervous system." be said...
...famed Virologist John F. Enders (TIME, Nov. 1) of Boston's Children's Medical Center: he thinks he has trapped the elusive measles virus and got it growing in tissue-culture tubes. If this is confirmed, further steps would follow along the lines that led to the Salk polio vaccine...