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...Virologist Robert Davies Defries 56 University of Toronto, for leadership in preventive medicine-his laboratories brewed most of the virus used in the Salk 1954 polio vaccine, made the bulk of Canada's 1955 vaccine...
...Salk vaccine had nothing to do with most of the improvement in the figures, because only a small proportion of potential victims received it-and many of these got only one injection, of doubtful efficacy. However, the vaccine proved its usefulness: the drop in epidemic severity was much more marked in the 7,000,000 inoculated in the 5-to-9 age groups than among non-inoculated-25% to 50% fewer cases. On the strength of these figures-and with prospects for improved, safer vaccine-Crusader Basil O'Connor of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis predicted that...
...combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen...
...With Salk polio vaccinations about to resume after the summer stoppage Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion B. Folsom and U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele issued preliminary reports on the 1955 vaccination program...
...last week, instead of the scheduled 20 million children, only 6.5 million had been vaccinated. But the effects of the Cutter crisis were not all destructive. The PHS shook up and expanded its Laboratory of Biologies Control. Scientists, led by Dr. Jonas Salk himself, buckled down to the search for an improved vaccine. The National Foundation for-Infantile Paralysis, which rushed the vaccine program prematurely this year, grimly planned a bigger and better program...