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In Toronto last week, a gathering of pediatricians heard from an expert a quiet, restrained, but potentially epochal progress report on vaccine research. The speaker was Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr.. chief physician of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, who has been working on a vaccine for measles...
Dr. Stokes takes account of two kinds of immunity. The first is the "passive" kind-e.g., the immunities that every baby receives from its mother, and that last for only the first few months of life. Doctors now know that this kind of immunity can often be given later...
If Dr. Stokes's theory is right, it goes far to explain why poliomyelitis has been a serious problem in Southern California, with its high living standards and good sanitation, and rare amid the poverty and open sewers of Mexico's Lower California. Most U.S. babies, while enjoying...
Dr. Stokes is planning experiments to see whether a throat spray containing a virus of a disease such as mumps, given soon after injections of gamma globulin, can produce active immunity against the disease.
As Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro!" (Go! Go!)