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Eczema afflicts nearly half a million U.S. children under six - a statistic that can have serious consequences at vaccination time. An eczematous child inoculated against smallpox with the standard cowpox-virus vaccine may develop a severe and possibly fatal combination of cowpox and eczema known as eczema vaccinatum. Now the...
Dr. Kempe, who has long been concerned by the dangers of wholesale, haphazard vaccinations (TIME, May 20), has been working for 20 years to devise a safer vaccine. To the American Pediatric Society in Atlantic City he reported the success that he and his colleague have achieved. Starting with a...
The important difference was that no matter how it was given, children with eczema had less fever and even fewer severe reactions than normal children who got the standard shot. In 1,409 test vaccinations, only two children developed allergic complications, and they were mild and short-lived. Of the...
Though the disease fighters were hampered by the public's unconcern, they were helped by some characteristics of the measles virus. There is only one type, as against three for polio. One shot of vaccine made from live but attenuated virus confers lifelong immunity. And the wild virus has...
Last year vaccination drives in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Detroit and South Dakota paid off handsomely. New Hampshire has not had a single case since September. Elsewhere there have been scattered cases but no epidemics. In all, more than 18 million doses of vaccine have been injected, most of...