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In spite of these cancellations, Harvard recently sent its men's baseball and lacrosse teams to play at Dartmouth. In order to avoid contamination of Harvard students, all athletes with circumspect medical records were given the measles vaccine.
"We innoculated all those who hadn't had solid evidence that they were previously given the vaccine," says Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of Harvard University Health Services. Postel adds, however, that "Dartmouth innoculated its teams across the board."
Innoculation for measles generally takes place when a child reaches 15 months. The child is injected with a small dosage of the live measles vaccine so that he will develop antibodies to fight the disease in the future.
The acid test for the vaccine, of course, would be for Zagury to inject himself with live AIDS virus to see if he is truly protected. But that, he admits, "would be crazy." The next best thing is to test the vaccine in people who, because of their life-style...
In a series of actions on the epidemic, the Federal Government advises tests for some transfusion recipients who received unscreened blood, issues a controversial education plan and approves the drug AZT for treatment of some AIDS patients. In France, a researcher has injected himself with a potential AIDS vaccine, a...