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...Time, Two Shots. The original measles vaccine developed by Harvard Virologist John F. Enders (TIME cover, Nov. 17, 1961) and co-workers is highly effective. But used alone, the attenuated (weakened but still live) virus causes fever in 80% of vaccinees, and a rash in 50%-reactions too much like natural measles to be acceptable to many parents. The killed-virus vaccine does not have these side effects, but neither, says Enders, does it confer long-lasting immunity...
Virologists, pediatricians and public health officials have worked out a compromise. They give the live vaccine, and at the same time they give an injection of human gamma globulin, the blood fraction that contains antibodies against measles as well as against other diseases. The "GG" has staved off fever in...
For the Brave, the Arm. After stating that their children had never had measles, parents pushed, pulled or carried the kids into the cafeteria-clinics. For the brave ones, two rolled-up sleeves sufficed for a shot of vaccine in one arm and GG in the other. Kids who went...
If the Virginia experiment is as successful as expected, the cries of needle-shy pre-teen kids should soon be heard across the U.S. No measles vaccine has yet won Government approval, but nine manufacturers are working on it.
In children and in males of any age, German measles is a trivial disease-totally different from ordinary measles (rubeola). The elusive virus now isolated cannot be generally used as a readymade vaccine because of the danger that children might transmit the infection to pregnant women. So scientists are trying...