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...Mass production of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine has been delayed by minor snags in manufacture, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced. So the ambitious program of nationwide test inoculations (TIME, Nov. 23) will not get started until late March or early April...
Under plans announced this week by Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Dr. Salk will widen his testing program in western Pennsylvania to cover more than 5,000 children by midwinter. Then mass field trials on a nationwide basis will get under way on Feb. 8 in a county (still to be chosen) in one of the Southern states where polio strikes early and often. Thereafter, as fast as can be, inoculation teams will get to work in 200 or more counties until 500.000 to 1,000,000 children have been vaccinated. The work...
...will be 1955 before results of the $7,500,000 test can be accurately judged, said O'Connor. The vaccine will be made in Dr. Salk's laboratories, and by pharmaceutical manufacturers using his method. It will be triple-tested for safety-by the manufacturer, by Dr. Salk, and by the U.S. National Institutes of Health...
Polio vaccine researchers got into a hassle last week over the safety of Dr. Salk's preparation, in which the virus is killed with formaldehyde. A team from Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, headed by Dr. Albert Milzer. complained that they had followed Dr. Salk's published directions faithfully, and the formaldehyde had failed to kill all the virus. On the other hand, said Dr. Milzer, they had no trouble killing the virus with ultraviolet light, and then had made an effective vaccine...
...Salk suggested that the Chicago researchers had brewed their virus broth too strong...