Word: vaccinee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The vaccine is not being offered yet because there is evidence that some viruses which are common in the fall season can interfere with its immunisation process. Dr. Postel emphasized that the delay in the vaccination program is not related to the recent controversy about the possibility that the Sabin...
Although the UHS does, not feel that the coming of an epidemic is certain, some vaccine is available, and Postel said that expectant women and persons with chronic diseases should be innoculated.
The nationwide drive to get Americans of all ages vaccinated against polio was snarled last week in a furious controversy over the safety of the Sabin oral vaccine, Type III. Among 1962's relatively few cases of paralytic poliomyelitis (fewer than 450 to date, with the total not expected...
At first, no ill effects were reported. But then a cluster of three paralytic cases developed in Oregon within seven to 30 days after vaccination. Nebraska soon had three cases, Michigan and Ohio had two each, and New York had one. Two of these eleven victims were in their teens...
Because the PHS was so inconclusive, several U.S. cities canceled or postponed their Type III programs, while others, notably Houston, decided to go full steam ahead. Though no medical authority would put it in such down-to-earth terms, the best advice available was to play the odds. An unvaccinated...