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City & Country. Doctors manned 36 clinics, mostly in schools. In the larger centers, they were armed with high-pressure air guns to squirt a dose of vaccine through the skin of a child's arm so fast that he could hardly feel it. Smaller centers used conventional hypodermic needles...
*Reoviruses were so named in 1959 by Cincinnati's Polio Vaccine Developer Albert B. Sabin from the initials for "respiratory, enteric, orphan," because they are associated with odd sniffling and diarrheal disorders in men and monkeys but cause no known natural disease.
Complete prevention of cholera by cleaning up or isolating contaminated water supplies-a more effective method of prevention than the wearing of fantastic anti-cholera costumes with a windmill on the hat (see cut]-no longer seems feasible. El Tor bacilli have spread too far, over millions of square miles...
At the International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok last month, Dr. Richard A. Finkelstein of the SEATO Medical Research Laboratory suggested that it might be possible to make another type of vaccine. This would work against a chemical poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage...
U.S. military medics are considering an attempt to develop an El Tor vaccine, but the need for it in U.S. forces is not clearly defined. Although El Tor is now established among the civilians of South Viet Nam, there has not been a single case among U.S. forces. This relative...