Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The height, weight and breadth of 18-year-olds can be predicted with "a high degree of probability" when they are only a few years old, reported New York City's Dr. Irving Kowaloff in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Examples, based on statistical studies of...
¶ No sooner had the Salk polio vaccine received an apparently clean bill of health (TIME, Nov. 28) than the Massachusetts State Poliomyelitis Advisory Committee dissented.* State authorities, it ruled, are still not to use the vaccine until there is more convincing safety evidence. Last summer Massachusetts was stricken with...
* Among the members: Virologist John F. Enders and Physician Thomas H. Weller, who won the Nobel Prize for basic discoveries which made the vaccine possible.
stopped producing the vaccine, has not shipped a drop since. Last week Parke, Davis gave the reason: it is experimenting with ultraviolet rays in processing the vaccine. This could give greater assurance of safety. Also, ultraviolet might make it possible to produce a more effective vaccine, using less formaldehyde-which...
6. "The potential hazard to unvaccinated persons "from carriers of a live virus in the vaccine employed.