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The search for a cancer vaccine has largely been a painstaking, systematic chore of isolating some agent that might produce cancer-killing antibodies in human patients. Last week Swedish Immunologist Dr. Bertil Bjorklund announced that he was taking a shortcut. Rather than waiting for time-consuming analysis, he will inoculate...
Dr. Enders said that the most important work of his laboratory was the discovery of how to grow measle viruses in tissue culture. It was the comparable discovery of how to grow polio viruses in test tubes that led the way to the development of the polio vaccine and to...
Actually, two types of vaccines against measles have been developed so far. Dr. Enders's laboratory has worked on the production of a vaccine using live, attenuated viruses, because live viruses tend to give a more lasting immunity than dead ones. Work is also being done, however, with a vaccine...
The live virus vaccine has proved to be more effective in the tests conducted recently by the University of Pennsylvania However, various side effects have accompanied inoculation.
In many children, the vaccine causes something like a mild case of measles. A rash similar to measles has been noted, but more alarming a first was the frequent occurrence of a fever.