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This summer could be different. For the first time there is a vaccine against the Lyme-causing spirochetes. It's not perfect--you need to take three shots over 12 months, and by the time you're done you're still only 80% protected. Also, the vaccine won't work...
Manufactured by SmithKline Beecham under the brand name Lymerix, the new vaccine operates on the principle that the best defense is a good offense. Unlike other vaccines, it targets disease-causing organisms outside the body, in the tick, rather than after they've invaded the bloodstream. Here's how it...
Last week's NATO raids were more than just a slap at the Serbs. They also represented a fundamental and dramatic shift in the way the U.S. has mixed military policy with foreign affairs. For the better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American...
And one last thing. Like the millions of American veterans who have never ceased thanking Harry Truman for dropping the Bomb and ending World War II, the folks who got their polio shot between the first Salk vaccine and the Sabin model have never had any quarrel with Salk's...
1952 U.S. virologist Jonas Salk develops the first effective polio vaccine