Word: salk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes on his shoulder boards. His "gun" was a Hypospray injector made by Detroit's R. P. Scherer Corp., modified to meet Dr. Anderson's suggestions. His ammunition was Salk vaccine...
...many takers that he has had to squeeze in his Air Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled to run through Sept. 15. By then, most of the state's susceptible population will have had two Salk inoculations, an estimated 150,000 shots by spray gun and an equal number by the conventional needle...
...partly financed by a grant from the National Foundation, Enders took a flyer in polio virus culture. With Drs. Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, he found a way to grow the virus so that a safe vaccine could be made. For this work, on which the Salk and all later polio vaccines are based, the trio got a 1954 Nobel Prize. Harvard recognized Dr. Enders' greatness by naming him a full professor in 1956. Perpetual Fame. In 1953 Enders asked Dr. Thomas Peebles, assistant in his lab at Children's Hospital in Boston, whether he would like...
...fact that no new case of paralytic polio has developed in Dade County since May 3 is encouraging. In previous years, even since Salk, there have been as many as half a dozen. "On the surface," says a PHS epidemiologist, "the vaccine appears safe and efficient. But vaccines are supposed to prevent polio, and we won't know whether this one has done so until the end of the season...
...monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...