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...only antidote for botulism, and only moderately effective at best, is a Ledejle Laboratories antitoxin (made by injecting botulinus toxin into horses and extracting their immune serum). It costs about $68 a 20,000-unit vial, and each victim needs at least 50,000 units. Nearest supply was in Portland, Ore.: six vials. More was flown from Denver and Los Angeles. Still not enough. At its Pearl River (N.Y.) headquarters, Lederle drained the barrel, packaged nearly all the remaining antitoxin. Total haul: 139 vials, tagged at $9.591-which Lederle marked "paid," as a public service...
...determined effort to do so is under way at Roswell Park Institute. Patricia, a lone baby monkey harboring polyoma virus, has her own spotless nursery where she is cared for by Nurse Althea Higgins. Drs. Stewart and Eddy have gone a vital step farther, treated their virus with rabbit serum, and made a vaccine that protects a big majority of normally susceptible animals against the polyoma virus' effects. At Sloan-Kettering Institute, Dr. Charlotte Friend has cultured a strain of mouse virus that causes leukemia in adult as well as newborn animals, and has perfected a protective vaccine...
...rescue a little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite all efforts, 16 people died (twelve of them children) and 121 were injured...
...Commie-loving Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 85, better known as the Red Dean of Canterbury, who has swallowed all sorts of pink pap in his time, disclosed that he is now taking it subcutaneously. Hewlett's wife Nowell Mary, 53, has been injecting him with Substance H3, a "youth serum" containing novocain and unspecified acids, developed by the dean's good friend, Dr. Anna ("Age is an illness; age is curable") Asian, at her rejuvenation clinic in Bucharest. He is now running on a three-month supply of the stuff that he brought from Rumania...
...their usual work." One of the most consistently predictable benefits, he said, was relief of pain from bone cancer. In some cases. Dr. Murray went so far as to describe patients' improvement as "spectacular." But he warned that some patients have sensitivity reactions to the horse serum, and he says it should never be given to those with damaged livers...