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India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, is such a devout Hindu that he not only refuses to eat meat but he refuses to be vaccinated against smallpox because cattle were used to make the vaccine. Now Desai has decided to ban the export of rhesus monkeys as of...
Desai's personal beliefs can hardly be blamed, however, for the crisis confronting so much research. The chief culprits, according to American as well as Indian sources, are agencies of the U.S. armed forces, particularly the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). When the U.S. and India first formally...
The Rhesus is of particular importance in the testing of Polio vaccine for use in humans. These tests are required by the Food and Drug Administration, and no other species is adequate, Hunt said.
Last week leading flu experts met in Geneva at the World Health Organization. Their main concern was to help develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only...
"Large-scale mass immunization will not be recommended, however, and the vaccine will be used for certain restricted groups such as the elderly in nursing homes," Postel said yesterday.