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Jet-Borne Virus. The problem may be more difficult than the finances suggest. The world's greatest smallpox reservoir is the Indian subcontinent. In the 1950-51 winter epidemic season, the Republic of India recorded 225,000 cases and 57,000 deaths. By herculean efforts involving 420 million vaccinations...
The rubella tamers are two pediatricians still in their 30s, Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. and Dr. Paul D. Parkman. Though German measles is almost invariably trivial for all but the baby in the womb, the raw virus could not be used as a vaccine because of the danger that...
No Spread. Drs. Meyer and Parkman spent two years growing 77 crops of rubella virus, each "seeded" from the preceding crop. At this point, they inoculated rhesus monkeys with what they called HPV-77 (for high-passage virus). Happily, the vaccinated monkeys showed no signs of rubella, but developed antibody...
At the Arkansas Children's Colony for the retarded, near Conway, Ark., the inmates were housed 16 to a cottage and could be easily isolated. With the parents' consent, the researchers injected the vaccine into eight girls in one cottage, left the other eight unvaccinated for comparison. The...
* It took twice as long to produce a vaccine of comparable safety for the ordinary "red" or "seven-day" measles (rubeola) after the virus was cultivated.