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...Children's Hospital followed logical scientific methods to discover the long-sought method of cultivating polio virus in a test-tube. Although their methods were only a slight modification of a research technique first introduced in 1907, they produced a discovery sufficiently significant to inspire the nation-wide Salk Vaccine campaign...
Consult with Salk...
Once the viruses could be grown, the doctors conferred with Dr. Jonas Salk of Pittsburgh on the best method of neuralizing the adverse effects of the polio. He exposed the viruses to formal dehyde to destroy their infectivity. His hope and conviction is that they will enable an innoculated body to build up lasting antibodies...
Enders points out that the eventual success of the Salk Vaccine will depend upon how well it can build up antibodies within the central nervous system, as well as in the body itself. "We know the vaccine gets into the blood system, but it has not been absolutely demonstrated that it reaches the nervous system." be said...
Although conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of the Salk Vaccine has not been established, there is not doubt of the success of the enders-Weller-Robbins venture. Repeated evidence shows that the tissue culture method will now be applied to increasingly expanded field of virus research. It was for this wide reaching possibility that Weller and Robbins jointly received the Mead Johnson Award of 1953- for "the development of the tissue culture method will now betion to the field of virus diseases...