Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause...
Dr. Price (Ph.D. in general physiology) reported tests run on 100 children exposed to an outbreak of colds resulting from the virus. Those who got no vaccine caught eight times as many colds as those who did get it (in two 1-cc. hypodermic shots a month apart). Indications are...
The virus that the vaccine fights was first spotted by Dr. Price himself four years ago, remains the only common cold virus to be successfully isolated for vaccine development. Named JH (for Johns Hopkins), it was discovered by accident in 1953 during an influenza study, when a group of Hopkins...
As the flu spread, an allergist in Philadelphia raised the possibility that greatly reduced vaccine doses can supply adequate protection if injected into the skin instead of under it. Writing in Philadelphia Medicine, Dr. Louis Tuft of Temple University reports that, on the basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed...
So far in the United States the majority of the flu cases have been reported in coastal or port areas--California had 25,000 cases by August 17, Houston, Dallas, and New York City have both reported what are still minor outbreaks, Louisiana and Mississippi have a total of 45...