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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most available vaccine will probably continue to be distributed free during 1956 (doctors usually charge a fee for administering the injections privately). Some states, e.g., Illinois and Colorado, have decided to freeze out commercial vac cine for the present, distribute their entire allotment free. Others are increasing their allotment of commercial vaccine. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which provided the free vaccine for first-and second-grade school children in 1955, has stopped distributing vaccine, although some of its vaccine is still being used. The Government's $30 million vaccine grant to the states is available only until...
Clean Bill. First manufacturer to get a going-over was Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. - largely, no doubt, because its vac cine so far had a spotless record and there was every reason to believe that the PHS would have good news about it. The in vestigating team did not repeat the whole testing procedure, which takes three months. Instead, it quizzed the technicians in the testing rooms. Team members not only again pored over the bulky "pro tocols" (elaborate reports from manufac turer to Washington, showing the result of every phase of every test); they also leafed through...
...vaccine, but if the statement made any sense at all, the inoculations must have been at least a contributing factor in the onset of the disease. His announced toll: 52 cases of clinical polio among vaccinated children, 50 of them paralytic and 44 after use of Cutter vac cine. (Among all unvaccinated Americans, the week would be expected to bring reports of no more than 150 cases...
Clean Sweep. A bantamweight vacuum cleaner was readied for the market by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Designed so it can be carried about the house on a shoulder strap, the 7-lb. 3-oz. Porta-Vac is about the size of a portable radio but is 80% as powerful as a full-size vacuum cleaner. Price...