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Because the malady is waning, immunization now poses a greater risk than smallpox itself. Some people react badly to the vaccine, and in 1968, when more than 14 million people were immunized worldwide, at least nine are known to have died as a result. Therefore the U.S. Public Health Service...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is watching for any outbreak of African swine fever, a disease deadlier than anthrax or hog cholera. Swine fever is said to be epidemic in Cuba and it is possible that an imported Cuban ham could carry the disease to Mexico, thence to the U.S...
Food for Buzzards. The prognosis for the state's horses, however, is poor. Supplies of antiencephalitis vaccine, which is still in the experimental stage, are limited. Aerial spraying of mosquito-breeding areas was begun too late to kill many of the disease-bearing insects. "We've kind of...
WHEN a cholera epidemic broke out recently in Kenya, the Ministry of Health decided that the entire country would have to be immunized. But where could so much vaccine be obtained in a short time? Unhesitatingly, the Kenyans turned to Israeli Ambassador Reuven Dafni for help. Dafni cabled Jerusalem, and...
In a unique series of experiments, Dr. Loren Humphrey of Atlanta's Emory University inoculated patients with a vaccine made, at least in part, with tissues taken from tumors similar to their own. He then followed up the inoculations by cross-injecting the patients with white blood cells from fellow...