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The University will offer the Sabin oral vaccine for immunization against poliomyelitis to all students, Faculty members, and employees beginning in January.
The Sabin vaccine is a live virus vaccine which has been weakened to produce immunity without producing clinical sickness. To be protected against all three strains of poliomyelitis virus, individuals must take all three types of vaccine. Type I will be given Jan. 13, 14, and 15; Type II, March...
The Sabin oral vaccine "has been given with a high degree of acceptance and safety in communities throughout the country and all over the world," according to Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University health services.
Even if new variants are spotted promptly and pharmaceutical companies put on a crash program, it still takes four to six months to produce a vaccine. By then, an epidemic may have run its course. And the vaccines now in use are of such dubious potency that they have protected...
It is now clear that scores of different kinds of viruses cause common colds and grippelike illnesses. To prepare a vaccine against a specific virus, or a small group of viruses, is meaningless in the face of such numbers. What medicine needs, said Dr. Buescher, is a new approach. "When...