Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(3 of 3) Is Effective. Of those who received vaccine, only 57 developed polio. Of these, only one died: Patricia Redick, 8, of Tulsa. She received her first shot in April, then had her tonsils out, got a second shot in May and died two weeks later. In Patricia'...
The big news came in three words: "The vaccine works."
"But with the cost of a series of shots estimated at $7, the Department would go bankrupt if it tried to provide everyone with free vaccine," he added.
It is still unknown when the vaccine will become freely available, since the production rates of the pharmaceutical houses licensed for manufacture are still indefinite. The released date will also depend upon whether the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis follows Dr. Jonas Salk's suggestion to increase the period between...
The Health Service has no immediate plans for pressing for compulsory immunization similar to the mandatory smallpox vaccination for incoming freshmen. "If the vaccine continues to prove successful," Farnsworth said, "everyone will be inoculated before reaching the University, anyway."