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...indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled he to an aide: "Let's go ahead with our idea-right now, tonight...
...poor artisan. Orphaned at ten months by the Battle of the Marne, Camus never saw his French father, spent his sou-less boyhood in Algiers with his Spanish mother. Working his way towards a philosophy degree at the University of Algiers, young Camus was invalided by a bout with TB, which may have stimulated his lifelong preoccupation with death. He recovered completely, as he did from a brief bout with the Communist virus contracted at about the same time...
...Advantages. Advocates of BCG argue that even a small contribution toward reducing TB is worthwhile, point out that the vaccine was shown in Britain to be 80% effective in cutting down TB among exposed adolescents, a rate comparable to that of most other vaccines now in general use. They feel that the value of the tuberculin test has been exaggerated, that X rays and sputum tests are more important and more reliable. BCG vaccine is not perfectly standardized, but the University of Illinois' Research Foundation has pioneered a freeze-drying process by which the vaccine probably can be shipped...
Around the world, more than 100 million people have been vaccinated with BCG and in most countries health authorities are satisfied that it has done much good-always in combination with other methods of TB control. In 1949 the U.S.'s National Tuberculosis Association urged a wide vaccination program, much the same as the one now advocated by Dr. Riggins, but little was done about...
...which the skin is scratched with a needle dipped in an extract from killed TB bacilli. A skin reaction indicates a past or present TB infection...