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...developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease. But suddenly and tragically, its safety had been put in question...
...feel like eating. What was more, he had a stiff neck. His mother took his temperature: 103°. Here were three symptoms of polio (although several other diseases cause similar symptoms). Yet Larry, like 26,000 other San Diego children, had been inoculated only five days earlier with the Salk vaccine...
...Public Health Service made a hurried check. All reported cases of polio among vaccinated children were youngsters who had received vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories. This raised the agonizing possibility that a batch of vaccine had gone through with some live virus in it. Like all vaccines, the Salk preparation contains germs of the disease that it is meant to fight. In the Salk process, these virus particles are killed, with formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen...
Perhaps the calmest doctor in the U.S. last week was Dr. Jonas E. Salk, who was in Washington during Secretary Hobby's conference, but was bent on other business. With his wife and three sons (Peter, 11, Darrell, 8, and Jonathan, 5) he went to the White House rose garden, where Dwight Eisenhower read and presented him with a special citation for a "historic contribution to human welfare ... in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research...
Other Eisenhower awards: a citation to the National Foundation, given to its president, Basil O'Connor, and pens and pocket knives for each of the Salk boys. Ike's advice to Jonathan: don't use that knife until...