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Last July, another mutation erupted from China through Hong Kong and has been tagged A2-Hong Kong-68. This time the vaccine makers were able to work faster. In mid-November they announced Government approval and first shipments of a new, anti-Hong-Kong-flu vaccine, harvested from viruses grown...
Aside from vaccination, the only prophylactic against any strain of Asian flu is amantadine, a drug marketed by Du Pont as Symmetrel. It is given to the elderly and infirm after one member of the household has come down with flu but before they develop it themselves. It is ineffective...
Sir: Your statement that the HPV-77 rubella vaccine would be the first live-virus vaccine licensed to be given by injection
[Nov. 1] is incorrect. Vaccines against smallpox, yellow fever, measles (rubeola) and mumps contain live attenuated viruses -all are given by injection. In fact, the Sabin oral polio vaccine is the only commonly used live-virus vaccine in the U.S. not given by injection.
A third live vaccine, an injectable one produced in Belgium and grown in rabbit-kidney cells, is being extensively tested by Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Because of its head start in Europe, this may be the world's first licensed rubella vaccine. Additional U.S. testing will probably take a...