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...Hospital has a method, he said, of reducing seven or eight gallons of virus solution down to half a teaspoonful or less-99% pure virus. This can be inactivated and tested far more readily. So why not concentrate the stuff? He got no immediate answer, but P.H.S. and Dr. Salk are studying...
Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin, outspoken champion of a live-virus vaccine (TIME, May 23), suggested that all three paralysis-causing strains used in the Salk preparation be thrown out. In their place he would put nonvirulent strains, which may be found in nature or "bred" selectively in the laboratory. Knowing that his audience was far from ready to accept live viruses, Dr. Sabin cannily reminded them that these too could be treated with formaldehyde. This would give double protection, and a Swedish researcher is working on such a vaccine right...
...Offered by Mutual of Omaha (insurance), and presented by the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, who sternly advised Dr. Salk: "For heaven's sake, put it on the mortgage...
University of Michigan Jonas Salk . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D...
...Robert Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., wrote in his annual report to stockholders: "We are up to our ears in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine production. Around the middle of the year you are either going to look on this decision as being very dumb or very smart, depending on how the poliomyelitis vaccine turns out." Last week, as a result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques...