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...Public Health Service released 300,000 shots of Salk polio vaccine, first to be approved in more than a month. Significantly, PHS also announced a major research program aimed at improving the Salk vaccine, mainly by using other strains of virus (than the dangerous Mahoney) and by improving tests for potency and safety tests in monkeys...
Cincinnati's respected Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, May 23), long the foremost critic of vaccines made (like Salk's) of inactivated virus, urged that both production and inoculation be stopped until the vaccine can be made consistently safe.* He was supported by men of impressive professional caliber: Nobel Prizewinner John F. Enders of Boston's Children's Medical Center and Dr. William McD. Hammon, an epidemiologist who rubs elbows with Dr. Salk at the University of Pittsburgh...
...entire panel agreed that one step toward consistent safety would be the elimination of the virulent Mahoney strain of virus. (This would certainly take months, possibly years.) By nose count, the Salk program car ried again. When Chairman Priest got Yale's Professor John R. Paul (School of Medicine) to poll the panel of 15 experts, the result was 8 to 3 in favor of going on with Salk inoculations, and four abstentions (including Dr. Salk himself). Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele hurried forward with a statement reaffirming his endorsement of continued manufacture and vaccination. Nonetheless, the question...
...Toronto last week, as Canadian medicos got together with their British cousins at the joint meetings of British, Canadian and Ontario medical associations, they found it hard not to be smug. (The British are not using the Salk vaccine at all, except in a limited test.) Admitted the Canadians gallantly: "With a larger number of children vaccinated, we might have got into trouble, too." Said Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes, one of Canada's top polio experts: "A safe and effective vaccine can be produced. [But] a great deal of work has yet to be done...
...Connor pleaded: "Let's not have the Salk vaccine talked to death...