Word: vaccinees
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The University Health Service will inoculate free of charge anyone who can obtain vials of the new Salk polio vaccine, and is considering the possibility of encouraging inoculation for the whole College when supplies become generally available, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the Service, said last night.
Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at the Medical School and leader of the University research team which won a Nobel prize for its work in cultivating poliomyelitis virus, last night expressed delight at the success of the new Salk polio vaccine. "All concerned deserve a...
The results of extensive tests made last spring, when 440,000 primary school children were injected with the vaccine, showed 80 to 90 percent success, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., University of Michigan epidemiologist announced yesterday. Francis was in charge of an evaluation of the tests.
"Their discovery paves the way for the growth of the virus in quantities massive enough for use in a vaccine," the statement said. October's Nobel Prize citation hailed the team's discovery of "the ability of poliomyelitis to multiply in tissue from primates."
The march was long and the marchers many. First came the viruses, then the rats, monkeys, the test tube cultures, and finally the pure strain from Brunhilde the chimpanzee. Brunhilde's type of infantile paralysis marched along with Lansing's and Leon's. The Mahoney virus replaced Brunhilde's and...