Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, routinely, news of the mass vaccination trials to prove the value of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine (TIME, Mar. 29) seeped down to the grass roots. Said the school's principal, Sid Clark: "The children understand that something pretty important is being done. They understand that vaccination is a doctor with a needle, and that their parents are going to say yes or no." Clark was more worried about the parents' reactions than the children's. "There are so many rumors flying around, started by headline hunters...
...refreshing to see Polio Fighter Salk on the cover of TIME [March 29], after a double dose of McCarthy and his brash young rogues, Cohn and Schine...
...Salk's final specifications has been rejected. Authorities agree that the vaccine used will be as safe as medical knowledge can contrive. Rejections of trial-run batches prove nothing against the vaccine's safety-only that the tests are doing what they were...
...This year's mass trials are the greatest gamble in medical history," says a polio researcher, who, admittedly, favors a live-virus vaccine. But the gamble is sure to pay off one way or another. If the Salk vaccine is effective for even one season, 1954 will be a year of signal victory against polio; if it is not, little will have 3een lost and much knowledge gained for a new attack...
...Isolated in Dr. Salk's laboratories from James Sarkett, now 14, when he had paralytic polio four years ago. His name was not clear on the specimen bottle and a researcher misread it as "Saukett." In this form it is now perpetuated, beyond hope of correction, in countless scientific publications. -Hence the name, poliomyelitis-literally, inflammation of the grey marrow (part of the spinal cord). -Both his brothers chose careers on the borders of medicine. Herman. 34, is a veterinarian in Mars, Pa. Lee, 27, is a candidate for a Ph.D...