Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Harvard doctors whose research made possible an anti-poliomyelitis vaccine were yesterday awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for medicine.
The three doctors were cited in the announcement for their discovery of "the ability of poliomyelitis to multiply in tissue from primates." It was this finding, made in 1949 at the Children's Medical Center, Boston that made possible the growth of enough polio virus to produce the Salk vaccine...
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Enders, who headed the three-man research team, described the group's accomplishment this way: "The tissue- culture method which we showed could be applied to the growing of polio virus is the one now used in producing vaccine."
Pressed for a less modest appraisal, Enders admitted that today's vaccine production would be impossible without the test-tube technique developed by him and his associates.
Most significant were Dr. Salk's new views on how many vaccine shots should be given, and at what intervals. This year's big field trials comprised three shots within a total of five weeks. But, said Dr. Salk, his latest research has made it clear that in...