Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age...
¶ The virus of distemper, which has saddened the heart of many a child by killing his pet pup, is the agent tested by Dr. John M. Adams of the University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to...
¶ For a crash program to nip a developing polio epidemic, a U.S. Public Health Service team recommends quick inoculation of the unvaccinated with a whopping shot of Salk vaccine-10 cc., or ten times the dose now given in each of three injections. In the New England Journal of...
The vaccine will be administered every Monday and Tuesday afternoon, 2-3 p.m., at 15 Holyoke St., for students and Faculty members. Employees may receive innoculations from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily at the Employees Clinic. Each injection costs $1.
In the U.S., Lederle vaccine has been tried on 148 families in a University of Minnesota housing project, but because highly detailed studies are continuing on the 542 subjects (285 adults, 257 children), only preliminary reports have been made. The gist: children show a full antibody response, as expected; in...