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...sickness that they suffered from was serum hepatitis ("needle jaundice"), the form of the disease in which the virus goes from one bloodstream to another by means of unsterilized or insufficiently sterilized injection equipment. In his high-speed psychiatry, Weiner had freely used injections and infusions, and, the jury held, was criminally negligent in failing to sterilize his equipment...
...proteins can kill the vaccinated person. Enders suggested growing it in cultures of muscle and skin from human embryos recovered in therapeutic abortions. It worked. Watching the cell-damage effect, the Harvard researchers could see that the virus was multiplying. The virus could still cause paralytic polio. But when serum from a recent polio patient was mixed with the virus in tissue culture, the cells were protected. The antibodies were at work. In guarded, highly technical language in Science, meaningful only to other virologists, the three researchers reported their success...
Along the way, Dr. Halden and a group of Carter researchers made the rare and happy discovery that Parker's serum (the watery part of the blood) is right for Rh typing. Such serum can be got only from Rh-negative patients who at some time in the past have had an infusion of Rh-positive blood. It contains an antibody called "anti-D," formed by natural body defenses doing battle with the invading Rh-positive factor. (Parker got his anti-D as a result of a 1947 spinal fusion when he was accidentally transfused with Rh-positive blood...
Building Up Production. At Carter, while drawing blood from Parker to treat the hemochromatosis, physicians made use of the serum byproduct in their laboratory. This gave rise to a proposal to give him more Rh-positive blood and stimulate anti-D production. Such a course was dangerous. Second transfusions of Rh-positive blood into negative patients frequently lead to severe incompatibility reactions, and sometimes death. But only a minute amount of Rh-positive blood need be transfused-a factor that favored the attempt. They put it up to the patient. "Go ahead," said Parker, "if this is going to help...
Parker has received only $300, plus free medical care. Rather than cash in on his rich Texas blood, he and the Carter Blood Center propose to get the price of Rh typing serum down...