Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two medical researchers working for the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results, to be both effective and safe. Their report to the American Pediatric Society, declared PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart...
Delicate Balance. The successful vaccine was made in a mere four years after the elusive rubella virus was originally persuaded to grow in the laboratory (TIME, Aug. 3, 1962). It was a virological feat equivalent to the running of the first four-minute mile.* Yet even this speed was not...
As for vaccines, the C.D.C. now believes that the viruses' antigenic properties "drift," or change slightly, and that the current wild strains have drifted away from those used in the vaccine now available. If the change is not too great, the vaccine should still offer substantial protection. Next year...
The 1967 budget reaches into every national nook and cranny. It concerns itself with appropriations for a nuclear aircraft carrier, for cancer research and free school milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen...
With the development of a safe and effective vaccine, says the Journal, measles and its complications-particularly encephalitis, with resulting permanent brain damage and "notable mortality"-can be virtually, eliminated: "All that is needed is wide acceptance and diligent use of the vaccine."