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The sickly village of Cidadap is not alone in its woes. Even as Americans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine--the magic bullet that all but wiped out polio in the U.S.--the disease is on the march around the world. Since 2003 polio has been spreading in...
In the summer of 2003, leaders of the region stopped polio inoculations after rumors spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile. It was a bad time--and a very bad place--to halt vaccines. There are now 35 million Nigerian kids under age 5, and 20...
The two professors collaborated on the project with Nancy J. Sullivan of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Ute Felbor, a former Harvard post-doctoral fellow and a current assistant professor in Germany.
Meanwhile, clinical and molecular researchers are launching a biological attack on the virus. Their objective: the development of vaccines to prevent its spread and drugs to treat those already infected. But the AIDS virus is a formidable adversary. Because it can reproduce so rapidly, says Harvard's Haseltine, it can...
This spring, Dr. Salk's vision and his delicate laboratory procedures and logarithmic calculations are to be put to the test. Beginning next month in the South and working North ahead of the polio season, the vaccine that Salk has devised and concocted will be shot into the arms of...