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Another example of this Republican philosophy in action cited by Beer was the handling of the Salk vaccine. Here again, according to Beer, the Republicans upheld their concept of the best government being the one which does the least...
...striven energetically to carry it out. Seldom does a week go by without the Councillor bringing up some matter, fantastic or otherwise. His most recent activities, besides the parking controversy, include an investigation of the inadequacy of Cambridge police protection and the inoculation of school children with Salk vaccine. "I had the city manager contact Washington to get the vaccine immediately," Vellucci said, "and we completed all the shots before the kids left school for the summer. We were one of the few cities in the country to be done so early...
...race to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis, two rivals were front-runners : the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29, 1954) and the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin. Dr. Salk won with a vaccine made of virus that is at first virulent (capable of causing severe disease) but is then killed with formaldehyde. This vaccine has to be injected in three spaced doses...
Last week Dr. Sabin (TIME, May 23, 1955) announced that he was ready to start wider-scale field trials with a vaccine that is in almost every respect the opposite to Salk's. It is made from "attenuated" virus-particles incapable of producing paralysis but strong enough to stimulate immunizing antibodies. This virus is used live. It is given by mouth in a single dose. Dr. Sabin has already tried it on 130 prisoner-volunteers, needs thousands of subjects for fuller proof of its safety and efficacy...
...when a medical genius, a laboratory man, chemist or physician discovers the substance which, in the form of a capsule, will capture the sources of energy that will bring recovery within hours." ¶Among children who have received the full course of three spaced shots of the Salk polio vaccine, not one death from the disease has been reported this year, said the U.S. Public Health Service...