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...Basil O'Connor's birthday conference, Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk had fun with what he admitted was a flight of fancy: that the kind of vaccine he developed against polio might some day be used against other diseases, including ulcers. Many viruses, Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur...
...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...those who have only a nodding acquaintance with it, the University of Pittsburgh is probably best known for 1) the 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning, 2) Dr. Jonas Salk, and 3) its football team, the Panthers. But in future, Pitt may well be most famous for the 42-year-old dynamo it has as chancellor. In his 18 months in office. Edward H. Litchfield has made it clear that he wants to make Pitt nothing less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says...
Nobody ever seriously expected the Salk vaccine to be 100% successful in preventing illness, paralysis or death from polio. But last September, news stories reported that, according to the U.S. Public Health Service, no child had died of polio after receiving the full course of three shots of Salk vaccine. In fact, at the time, the PHS already knew about one such death in July. A five-year-old boy who had been given his three shots died in Indiana ten minutes after admission to a hospital with a diagnosis of bulbar polio. Last week a second (and fully confirmed...
...Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk for developing the poliomyelitis vaccine...