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...against only Type I poliovirus. Said the PHS's Surgeon General Luther L. Terry: "I want to emphasize that an oral vaccine providing protection against all three types of poliomyelitis will not be available for some time. It is of the highest importance that vaccinations continue with the Salk vaccine, which is the only weapon we have today against all three types of polio...
...paralytic polio; Type II caused less than 5%; and Type III was blamed for the rest. Now Type II has all but disappeared, and Type III is reported as causing more than half of the paralytic cases. Why is not yet certain; one suggestion is that the injected Salk vaccine, which combines the three types in a single shot, was often weakest in its Type III component...
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...
...present trend holds, the U.S. will have fewer cases of paralytic polio in 1961 than in any year since the Salk vaccine became available. Up to July 7, only 157 cases were reported to the Communicable Disease Center...
...tycoons who are agile enough to outwit other tycoons. What difference does it make to us in a world where we wish to save our children from bombs and anarchy whether or not the Murchison types have more or less money? Can all the Murchisons together equal one Jonas Salk, for instance...