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...after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last week Harvard reported that the Zinsser serum works, that Mexican health authorities are inoculating the populace with Zinsser serum in hope of national prophylaxis...
...improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...
...rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat it." The infected rabbits sneezed, indicating that a germ made Daisy Jost sneeze. Dr. Rosenow's men decided that the germ was the same one responsible for sleeping sickness. Before they could attempt to make a serum, Daisy got well spontaneously...
...them in a rigidly sanitary compound. When, by inoculation, they could produce distemper in these dogs, they knew they had isolated its virus. It was easy then to prepare a protective vaccine. From the blood of dogs hyperimmunized by repeated injections of vaccine and virus, they developed a curative serum...
...necessary only to inject in it (preferably at the age of three months) two doses of Laidlaw-Dunkin vaccine, followed fortnight later by a dose of living virus. Preferred by some dog-owners because it involves only one trip to the veterinarian is a simultaneous inoculation with serum and virus. Theoretically sound, the practical worth of the simultaneous method has not yet been established. To cure sick dogs, an injection of serum during the early stages of the disease has proven effective...