Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. manufacturers of vaccine against Asian influenza did better than they had expected: last week, well ahead of schedule, two companies turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations) allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's National Drug Co. was...
The Priorities. The big question still was who would get the single-shot vaccine when. The armed forces were virtually assured of their needs (4,000,000 shots) by the contract date of Sept. 30. It looked as though there would be more than that number of shots ready for...
Indianapolis' Pitman-Moore Co., not yet ready with any vaccine, promised to send 500,000 shots, free, to doctors for themselves and their nurses or assistants - enough to take care of all the 180,000 U.S. physicians in private practice and their staffs. Though Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney...
From scare headlines and angry editorials, Britons generally learned last week what their doctors had known for months : the nation's vaccination program against poliomyelitis is a dismal flop. With this year's number of polio cases (2,700 so far) reported mounting rapidly toward what might well...
> With Britain reporting more than 2,000 cases of poliomyelitis this year (three times the U.S. rate, in proportion to population), the government still banned importation of American-made Salk vaccine except as a gift from U.S. donors, relied on British vaccine, which is in short supply. Commented the Lancet...