Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was Coventry, famed for Lady Godiva and the World War II blitz, that put the British polio picture in focus. With 87 cases in a population of 267,000, it was not the worst-hit city - Maidstone (pop. 55,000) had at least as many cases, and Lincoln (pop...
Some Britons (especially physicians) with U.S. connections are getting "unsolicited gifts" of American vaccine for their children. More U.S. vaccine is being smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000...
Trouble was that of two firms licensed to make Britain's own modified Salk vaccine, only one had got into production, and this was far behind schedule. But the Ministry stuck to its guns, insisted that British vaccine is safer and more effective than the American.* British critics of...
Although the U.S. so far has had a good polio year (TIME, Aug. 12), there were also complaints about the vaccination program. The U.S. Public Health Service last week got a slap on the wrist from the House Committee on Government Operations investigating the vaccine situation. Charged a committee report...
*The British vaccine differs from the U.S. chiefly in not using the virulent Mahoney strain to immunize against Type 1 polio infections. It substitutes a less virulent strain of the same type.