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...whether vaccination against tuberculosis should be extended in the U.S., long moot because of doctors' skepticism about the vaccine, is up for searching reexamination. Columbia University's Dr. H. McLeod Riggins declares that the U.S. has failed to put into full use "a scientifically proved vaccine" against TB because of "a false sense of security." Reason: the dramatic drop (of 76%) in the TB death rate since "wonder drugs" were found to treat the disease after...
...many physicians," says Dr. Riggins, "overlook the fact that almost as many new TB cases (about 100,000 a year) are now being reported as before the wonder-drug age. To hasten the elimination of tuberculosis, we need to vaccinate infants, children and certain young adults in areas of high incidence as well as those individuals who are unavoidably exposed [i.e., doctors and nurses...
...Drawbacks. A second strong plea for the vaccine is.made in BCG Vaccination Against Tuberculosis (Little, Brown; $7.50) by the University of Illinois' Dr. Sol Rosenthal. With the help of the Pasteur Institute's famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments attending early efforts to perfect a TB vaccine, then the surprising success of France's late Dr. Albert Calmette, with Guérin collaborating, in attenuating a strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known...
...objections to BCG are based on doubts of its safety and effectiveness, plus the complaint that it invalidates the tuberculin skin test.* Dr. Carroll Palmer of the U.S. Public Health Service found that among 50,000 young people in Puerto Rico, the vaccine cut TB by only...
From Control to Plans. Statistician Dublin's punch-card tabulators accurately foresaw, 20 years in advance, the great U.S. decline in the incidence of TB. He was among the first to focus attention on the growing menace of diabetes and the role of obesity in shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when...