Word: sores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James C. Turner is a onetime shoe salesman with a chronic sore back. Raised in Texas, exposed for a while to big-city life in Detroit, he decided in 1964, at 42, to become a publisher in a small Michigan town. He chose Howell (pop. 5,000), in Livingston County, halfway between Detroit and Lansing, where the most reliable source of excitement is the annual muskmelon festival. At least it was until James C. Turner turned crusader...
...serious complications after being vaccinated for the first time (only 7% after repeat vaccinations). No fewer than 20% of the patients had never been directly vaccinated at all: they were mostly children with eczema who picked up the vaccinia (cowpox) infection accidentally from contact with somebody else's sore arm. In the entire group surveyed there were nine deaths, while three survivors appear to have suffered brain damage and a fourth is paralyzed in both arms and legs. In all likelihood, say the N.C.D.C. investigators, complications are many times as numerous as the reports indicate...