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Word: vaccinees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a legion of doctors gathered in Chicago last week to swelter through the annual convention of the American Medical Association, they had not long to wait for the news that interested them-and their patients-the most. How is the Salk polio vaccine working out?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Progress | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

In a jampacked session on Navy Pier, four experts led by Vaccinventor Jonas Salk pronounced a favorable verdict. One year and 40 million inoculations after the initial flurry of accidents, controversy and fumbling, the vaccine has been vindicated. Said Dr. Salk in an unwontedly cautious, indirect statement: "Inferences that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Progress | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Near Cumberland, Md., Captain Tappe received an unusual order: he and Co-pilot Robert S. Hurley were to wait in the cockpit after landing at Pittsburgh until the senior agent knocked at the door. There was no explanation. Capital had alerted Dr. Allison J. Berlin to meet the plane at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wayward Virus | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

He ordered two young men to submit first. They did so, though one said: "We don't care much about such diseases-we believe that they're a God-sent evil that we can never escape." The vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The East & the Needle | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Careful Coincidence. This year Japanese climbers brought along a Nepalese military escort, a large collection of Buddhist books, cases of smallpox vaccine and a $550 contribution for the ruined monastery. Even so, Sama's citizens prepared to do battle. Then the Japanese played their ace. They introduced their leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Manaslu | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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