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Of the millions of persons who have taken flu shots, fully one-third have paid for their protection with such discomforting side effects as chills, fever and minor infections. Last week Government scientists announced the development of a new flu vaccine that causes reactions in less than 6% of those...
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Jonas Salk," a look at what the good doctor has been doing since he developed polio vaccine in 1955.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES No RSV, Please Each year, 10,000 U.S. infants die of lower-respiratory infections - more than half of them caused by a microbe with the forbidding name of "respiratory syncytial virus." Researchers have now devised a new vaccine against RSV.
Unhappily, it turns out to be a partial failure, according to evidence presented at a recent Manhattan virology conference. In fact, RSV has once again confronted virologists with the paradox that a vaccine sometimes worsens the dis ease it theoretically prevents.
Although some virologists differed with Dr. Chanock about details, they agreed that the newly developed vaccine against RSV must not be given to infants under six months, as it appears to increase the risk and severity of pneumonia. A similar phenomenon is now being seen in connection with another viral...