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...three doctors were cited in the announcement for their discovery of "the ability of poliomyelitis to multiply in tissue from primates." It was this finding, made in 1949 at the Children's Medical Center, Boston that made possible the growth of enough polio virus to produce the Salk vaccine currently being used in mass inoculations throughout the country...
Both Enders and Dr. Weller have talked with Dr. Jonas Salk at various times during their work on the poliovirus, and both are members of the group that will evaluate the results of this year's Salk vaccine tests...
...Rome University's Orthopedic Clinic, 1,133 polio experts from 49 nations gathered last week, but the vital question -how good is the Salk vaccine? -was not even on the agenda. Although masses of statistics and case reports on the vaccine trials (TIME, March 29) are piling up, no conclusive answer can be culled from them until next year. Meanwhile. Dr. Jonas E. Salk reported to his colleagues in Rome, he has already gathered new data that will dictate changes in any future attack on polio with a vaccine similar...
Most significant were Dr. Salk's new views on how many vaccine shots should be given, and at what intervals. This year's big field trials comprised three shots within a total of five weeks. But, said Dr. Salk, his latest research has made it clear that in man the best interval is more than five weeks-just how long Salk cannot yet say. After this period is determined, he hopes to be able to confer lifelong immunity against polio with only two inoculations...
...does the foundation want more money? The root of the trouble is that it is stuck with a $19 million bill for gamma globulin this year, in addition to a $7,500,000 test of the Salk vaccine, plus all its regular outlays for care of patients (estimated to top $33.5 million), education and research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals...