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...Step Further. Even before Cleveland began to gulp down the live-virus oral Sabin vaccine, killed-virus Salk vaccine had compiled an enviable record in suppressing polio. In the last seven years, Salk vaccine has cut Cleveland's polio to a total of 417 cases, compared with 3,338 in the previous seven years. But, says Dr. Howard H. Hopwood of the Academy of Medicine, the Sabin method has important advantages over Salk in mass vaccination campaigns. The live virus can be given by mouth, rather than by needle. It not only builds up polio-fighting antibodies...
...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...
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...