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Though flue vaccinations are available, the epidemic will probably be over before the antibodies take effect, William Kaden, director of health services at the Business School, said yesterday. For young, lowrisk patients, a mild case of the flue will build up stronger antibodies than the vaccine, he added.
Veterinarians at Cornell University's Baker Institute for Animal Health are working on a parvovirus vaccine that will offer long-lasting protection, but it is still experimental. For now, many dog owners are making do with vaccines using feline panleukopenia virus. The vaccinations offer effective protection against the dog...
DIED. Pearl Luella Kendrick, 90, microbiologist who in 1939 helped develop a vaccine that led to the virtual eradication of whooping cough, long a childhood scourge; of cancer; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kendrick also developed the standard DPT shot, which provides combined protection against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.
The development of the vaccine began in 1963, when Dr. Baruch Blumberg of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia identified a protein from the hepatitis B virus in the blood of an Australian aborigine. Researchers soon found that the protein, dubbed Australia antigen, existed in large quantities in the...
Then there was William Jennings Bryan who, having seen his fundamentalist creed vindicated during the Scopes trial of 1925, still insisted upon taking the stand in order to make his antievolution position crystal clear, thereby exposing himself to national (and historical) ridicule. And there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as...