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The 1963-65 U.S. epidemic of rubella, or German measles, was a national disaster. Rubella virus is as deadly as thalidomide for the unborn, and the epidemic left an estimated 30,000 babies marred for life by cataracts, deafness, heart malformations or mental retardation. Ever since, virologists have been racing...
Besides the inevitable competing claims of the vaccine producers, there may be controversy as to which type is safest and most effective. The front runner so far is a vaccine named HPV-77 by the virologists who developed it in the Federal Government's Division of Biologies Standards. This...
Nose Droos. Even so, Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute noted at a Manhattan conference last week that while the virus in HPV77 is attenuated, it is still alive. This, he said, would be the first live-virus vaccine against any disease ever licensed to be...
Drug manufacturers are now rushing to make the new vaccine available in time to forestall an epidemic. But chances are it will not be ready until January. One serviceman returning from Viet Nam has already carried the new flu home to Georgia. In the meantime, doctors will have to rely...
Public Health Service officials predict that the new flu, a variant of the A-2 that triggered a global epidemic in 1957 and killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains...