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Mumps. Moderately effective killed-virus vaccine available, used mainly for military recruits and pregnant women; several labs working on improved and live-virus forms.
Herpes Simplex ("fever blisters," many "canker sores"). Grown in tissue culture, but no vaccine in sight. Smallpox vaccine sometimes used in severe cases.
It meant that poliovirus could at last be grown in a way to make a safe vaccine, and the discovery led the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk to the next step, developing a formaldehyde-killed vaccine. It also meant a 1954 Nobel Prize, which Enders insisted...
Success in Measles. An ever more insistent backer of live-virus vaccines, Enders was a bit dismayed that the U.S. took up killed-virus polio vaccine with such zest. He experimented for a while attenuating poliovirus, sent a sample to the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (who...
Influenza. Various virus subtypes cause the disease, so need is for a general-purpose vaccine. Lederle Laboratories' civilian vaccine combats four strains, including Asian. Manufacturers say Public Health Service delayed too long in warning of probable outbreaks this fall and winter, so output has fallen behind need. Demand is...