Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year 20,000 or more Americans over the age of 50 die of pneumococcal pneumonia. Yet medical men have known for more than a decade that there is a safe and effective one-shot vaccine to fight the disease. Why don't doctors use the vaccine? Why don...
Until the late 1930s, the only protection against pneumococcal pneumonia was serum prepared in animals. It was neither reliable nor safe. Then came the sulfas, and an intensified search for better medications for both prevention and treatment. Toward war's end, the armed forces developed a vaccine from a...
The way to prevent 10,000 or more such needlessly early deaths each year, said Dr. Austrian, is for everyone over 50 to be immunized with six-way pneumococcus vaccine. One shot gives good immunity which lasts for years. But before the prescription can be filled, patients and their physicians...
Also licensed was a killed-virus vaccine made by Charles Pfizer & Co., which will have supplies ready in about a month. This vaccine causes no fever or rash, but it requires three injections spread over several weeks.
Doctors as well as parents are likely to be as confused about which measles vac cine to use as they are over Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. PHS licensed Merck Sharp & Dohme to distribute a live but attenuated vaccine, like the one developed by Dr. John F. Enders (TIME cover...