Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burney's predecessor, who was involved in last year's troubles over polio-vaccine distribution, resigned (with a disability pension) to take a $60,000-a-year job. By a recent act of Congress, the new Surgeon General receives $22,626 annually-$5,826 more than Dr. Scheele...
Many other states have had difficulty us ing up their allotments of Salk vaccine, and last week 17 states (twelve of them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the...
Outside the Board of Health and at three other clinics, working-class mothers lined up with infants in arms and toddlers tugging at their skirts, filed into the emergency inoculation room. There was plenty of vaccine (156,000 shots), and Bundesen bought 50,000 lollipops to ease the needles'...
Two-thirds of all the victims were under six years old-meaning that they had not been among the 110,000 schoolchildren who got free Salk shots in classroom clinics before vacations began. Of the five dead, three were under six, one was 28, one 34. Twenty-two of the...
¶ In the famed University of Pittsburgh laboratories where the Salk polio vaccine was invented, Dr. Gisela Ruckle, a German émigrée, reported that she had grown 25 generations of the measles virus in test tubes. The virus had hitherto defied domestication; now researchers may be able to...