Word: salk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jonas Salk will discuss new developments in the field of polio vaccines and his new institute for advanced biological studies...
...Surely a Jew such as I-who can raise her head with pride at the mention of names such as Salk, Einstein, Oppenheimer-can certainly bear the shame of the Rosenbergs...
...meant that poliovirus could at last be grown in a way to make a safe vaccine, and the discovery led the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk to the next step, developing a formaldehyde-killed vaccine. It also meant a 1954 Nobel Prize, which Enders insisted that Robbins and Weller share with him equally...
Waiting Till Spring. The monkey-brain test is admittedly arbitrary, because no human being is likely ever to get the vaccine that way, even by accident. So some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain to block general release of any oral vaccine this year except for an emergency stockpile for Government controlled use in epidemics. The National Foundation's Basil O'Connor snorted: "It is totally unorthodox to license part of a vaccine." Some manufacturers guessed that release of Type III oral...
Amid all the conflicting hopes and claims, all authorities urged continued full use of Salk vaccine this year. Fortunately, 1961 is proving to be the lightest polio year on record since figures were first compiled in 1912, with only 234 paralytic cases to date, as against 680 at this time last year. Salk vaccine might be taking a beating, but it had gone a long way toward beating polio...