Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duke physicists operate the Southeast's first 4,000,000-volt Van de Graaff nuclear accelerator. Its engineers developed an infra-red drying process for the South's textile industry, and its botanists have helped lead the fight against such tobacco plant diseases as blue mold and Granville...
Two University scientists, John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on polio vaccine, and soon afterwards Enders announced that he was near success on a vaccine for measles.
Recent criticism of the new Salk vaccine against polio was deemed premature by John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and recipient of the Nobel Prize this year for his work in isolating and growing the polio virus.
At a recent conference of research scientists in New York, Dr. G. S. Wilson of the Medical Research Council, London, had said that "the future vaccine in polio will lie with the living vaccines." The Salk vaccine is made by killing specimens of the three known types of polio-causing...
"There is much experimental evidence that the Salk vaccine may work," Enders said. "At any rate, it should be tried out before we decide what changes are necessary. The dead vaccine may well prove to be very effective."