Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight University doctors yesterday gave final approval for Massachusetts to participate in one of the biggest public health experiments in history, the nation wide tests of the Salk polio vaccine...
Several hours after their decision, Dr. Samuel B. Kirkwood, M.D. '31, State Health Commissioner, announced that on the basis of the committee's recommendation up to 40,000 school children in the state will be vaccinated with the Salk serum before June...
...expected that within a year the vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh, will provide an answer to the question of whether or not infantile paralysis has been conquered...
...will just have to wait and see," Dr. Enders said yesterday when asked whether the Salk vaccine will prove the final answer to the polio problem. He explained, however, that the vaccine seems to produce antibodies in the blood which counteract all three kinds of polio...
...June 1 in some states. But no vaccination can begin until next week at the earliest, after the foundation's Vaccine Advisory Committee, headed by the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Thomas M. Rivers, gives a final verdict on the vaccine's safety, based on Dr. Salk's preliminary trials in the Pittsburgh area...