Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then begins a painstaking, month-long process of testing, with more tissue cultures and inoculations into live monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs and mice to make sure that the vaccine is safe to inject into humans. These tests are made simultaneously on each batch of vaccine by the manufacturer, by Dr...
Like Cherry Soda. Finally passed and put up in little glass bottles, the vaccine is a clear solution the color of cherry soda. But few children will have time to notice this resemblance. In a typical vaccination program at Colfax School in Pittsburgh, jabbering youngsters trooped by classes to the...
The child's other arm was promptly swabbed with alcohol and Dr. Salk hustled over with a hypodermic. Though the syringe might hold up to 5 cc. of vaccine, the needle was changed for each child to cut down the danger of serum hepatitis. With a quick, deft motion...
Consenting Parents. By 1953's end, Dr. Salk had given his vaccine to about 1,000 children and adults in communities around Pittsburgh, with good evidence of an increase in antibodies and no bad reactions. Many doctors, especially state and county health officers who must take responsibility for the...
To meet these objections, Dr. Salk has had a busy season of needlework. In little more than five weeks he has inoculated almost 5,000 children in. the Pittsburgh area. Some have had three shots, some two, some one, all with vaccine made in his own laboratory. Now Dr. Salk...