Word: vaccinee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the decade since Virologist Jonas Salk perfected his anti-polio vaccine, the disease has been all but wiped out in the U.S. Reported cases of paralytic polio have dramatically declined, from 18,000 cases in 1954 to a mere 94 last year; the chance of getting polio today is...
Live & Dead. Hope for wholesale measles shots has just been boosted by the announcement that Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Division of the Dow Chemical Co. has now begun to market a one-shot vaccine that is expected to give lifelong immunity. The virus used in the new vaccine is derived from...
Never Twice. The Pitman-Moore vaccine offers a way out of the dilemma. After nurturing scores of "generations" of Enders' bug, Dr. Anton J. F. Schwarz now grows the final product in cultures of cells from virus-free eggs. When injected into a child, it causes no rash or fever...
No preventive or cure is in sight, despite a great deal of work and even more folklore. As people grow older they naturally tend to have fewer colds -and therefore, says Andrewes, they tend to find "proof" that their own pet precautions really work. Useful vaccines may eventually be developed...
At the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center outside Atlanta, Dr. Wilbur Deacon is working with monkeys. Next year, if Congress approves an appropriation of $175,000 covering his work, Dr. Deacon hopes to test human and other spirochetes in chimpanzees. These animals are expensive, but they...