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The near-perfect effectiveness of mass vaccinations against poliomyelitis has been dramatically proved in figures just released by the Center for Disease Control: in 1969, there were only 19 cases of paralytic polio in the U.S., and not a single death. It was the first year without a polio fatality...
Married. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, 55, pioneer of the first polio vaccine; and Françoise Gilot, 48, longtime (1944-54) model and mistress of Pablo Picasso, an artist of repute in her own right, whom Salk first met a year ago while she was visiting friends in California; both...
The portion is that which relates the percentages of nonwhite children v. white children receiving "DTP" vaccine. The actual disparity is 20% v. 8.6%, which is more meaningful and less discriminatory than the apparent gap implied to the casual reader (20% nonwhites not receiving shots-91.4% whites receiving vaccine).
Ultimately the cause of more disability and deaths is simple neglect compounded by the inadequacy of health education classes in many public schools. A six-year-old black girl in the South dies of diphtheria because no one ever told her mother that she should have her baby inoculated against...
William Kemmerer, chief of preventive medicine at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, feels that the unknown killer in the moon soil holds no threat to human life or any usefulness as a vaccine against bacteria. But the surprising demise of the bacteria may well have contributed to the extra degree of...