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...blood samples from 9,000 children, taken before and at intervals after vaccination, were meticulously studied. (This part of the evaluation program alone involved highly technical work with 2.000,000 test tubes, took five months.) However, no sooner had Dr. Francis finished reporting his results than Dr. Salk rose last week to confirm newer findings at which he had hinted last fall (TIME, Sept. 20). If three shots are given within five weeks, as was done last year, the effectiveness of the vaccine will last for at least a polio season. But if two shots are given within a month...
...Nov.1). This amount was to be given free to some 9,000,000 (children and pregnant women) most threatened by polio. At the same time, the manufacturing companies also decided to make an identical amount of vaccine on their own account, to be sold commercially. But last week, Dr. Salk upset everybody's calculations by reporting that it is better not to give all three shots within five weeks. More effective to build up immunity, Dr. Salk has found, will be two shots this spring, within a month, and a third after at least seven months. As a result...
...University Health Service will inoculate free of charge anyone who can obtain vials of the new Salk polio vaccine, and is considering the possibility of encouraging inoculation for the whole College when supplies become generally available, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the Service, said last night...
...still unknown when the vaccine will become freely available, since the production rates of the pharmaceutical houses licensed for manufacture are still indefinite. The released date will also depend upon whether the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis follows Dr. Jonas Salk's suggestion to increase the period between the second and third shots from three weeks to seven months...
...Salk and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have earned the right to lead the parade, which started to move when the Harvard trio of Enders, Weller, and Robbins found a non-nervous tissue in which the viruses could grow. But the other marchers at universities, foundations, hospitals and laboratories throughout the world have also merited a place in the ranks. They, along with the people who donated "dimes and dollars," have accomplished a miracle with ten million dollars--the price of ten jet planes...