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The Government's ambitious plans apply only to the common "seven-day" measles, or rubeola-not to be confused with the three-day "German" measles or rubella, for which a vaccine has not yet been perfected. Though rubella early in pregnancy has gained an evil reputation as a killer...
No Reservoirs. Perhaps because measles always seemed to be an unavoidable part of childhood, it has not loomed as threatening as other diseases, and its characteristic red spots have long been the butt of comic-strip jokes.* There were almost 4,000,000 cases a year in pre-vaccine days...
Trouble with Theory. At the Rand laboratory in an old carriage house outside Cleveland, the theory was subjected to a great leap forward. Suppose, speculated the Randmen, that cancer antigens (antibody-creating agents) from many types of diseases in many patients could be combined. Couldn't the pooled substance...
Nevertheless, Rand made and bottled a vaccine. The bottling was done in a room 5 ft. by 8 ft., a Food and Drug Administration inspector testified last week, by a woman who wore no covering on her hair and no sterile gown or gloves. Several Government witnesses testified that they...
U.S. Attorney Merle M. McCurdy, mindful of the quicksand of medical testimony in which the Government got mired in the Krebiozen case, was careful to raise no question of the efficacy of the Rand vaccine. All he asked for was a restraining order to stop traffic in the vaccine until...