Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a patient and hardheaded Scot last week came news of a revolutionary new attack on the common cold. For a quarter-century or more, physicians have been virtually unanimous in believing that colds are caused by viruses, but these are so maddeningly elusive that no consistently effective vaccine has...
"Och, Weel." Dr. Ritchie's research started in the early 19305, when clerks in his health department pestered him for a vaccine against their recurrent colds. Glasgow-born Dr. Ritchie harrumphed that he would have no truck with such nonsense. But, says he: "One woman kept nattering at me...
From employees of Lever Bros, he drew volunteers, some to receive a vaccine, others to get only an inert substance for comparison. Dr. Ritchie wasted no time chasing the will-o'-the-wisp virus (or viruses) that cause the first stages of a cold. He concentrated on the bacteria...
Last month the profitable monkey business was monkeyed with. The Indian government ruled that only monkeys weighing more than 6 Ibs. (v. the old 4-to-6-lb. standard) can be shipped, and only at a rate of five a crate, compared to the previous dozen. The government's...
These resistant strains, the Journal authors agree, are now firmly entrenched in hospitals. Epidemics usually begin in the nurseries. Since the babies do not bring them into the nursery, where do they come from? Usually, the investigators found, from nurses. In some hospitals, as many as 80% of personnel have...