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Proponents and opponents of live-virus poliomyelitis vaccines, which are taken by mouth, got closer to the infighting last week. All the leading scientists involved on both sides of the struggle to displace the Salk killed-virus vaccine (which must be injected) appeared at research meetings in Atlantic City and Newark, N.J., and nearly all took off the gloves. Government umpires looked on uncomfortably, dreading the day when they have to decide on licensing an oral vaccine...
...University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas Salk proved to be as good at sidestepping academic wrangling as he was at subduing the polio virus. Next year he will leave Pittsburgh, where he has recently been at odds with the University's administration, go to San Diego, where he will head the projected Institute for Biological Research, adjoining the University of California's La Jolla campus. The institute will be financed by private sources, will presumably give brilliant, self-contained Jonas Salk the job he wants most: being his own boss...
...drive by backers of oral, live-virus vaccines for the right to succeed the Salk killed-virus injections as the first line of defense against poliomyelitis reached the U.S. last week. Biggest offensive was launched in Miami and surrounding Dade County, where the entire under-40 population, estimated at 520,000, was marshaled in an effort to show that a single swallow of the three-way vaccine is not only safe but superior to Salk. By week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped...
...morning until night. It was all free. New York's Lederle Laboratories donated the vaccine. Physicians, nurses, and a host of assorted volunteers gave their services. Paper work was at a minimum. For each person to be vaccinated, there was a short form listing how many shots of Salk vaccine he had had, and for minors, a form for parental consent...
This straightforward procedure contrasted sharply with the complications of needle sterilization and alcohol swabbing with the injected Salk vaccine. And it was free of pain and the slight risks of needle jabs. Though a few vaccine swallowers (including adults) made wry faces, they need not have; the almost imperceptible flavor was pleasant. (But one pediatrician, knowing his clientele, took the added precaution of mixing the vaccine with a cola drink.) 700 an Hour. Almost 200,000 requests for the vaccine were in before the test began, and the biggest problem was getting the stuff to all who wanted it. Tourists...