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Last week Hong Kong health officials had confirmed 60 cases, with six deaths, in the colony's islands and mainland territory. Within ten days, the doctors vaccinated 1,750,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000). Cholera vaccine was arriving daily by jet from the U.S., Britain...
Strict Safety Test. Type I poliovirus used to cause 85% or more of all paralytic polio; Type II caused less than 5%; and Type III was blamed for the rest. Now Type II has all but disappeared, and Type III is reported as causing more than half of the paralytic...
Dr. Terry said he expected the oral Type II vaccine to be licensed "in the near future," but that is now a relatively irrelevant matter. The issue is oral Type III. All vaccine batches are brewed separately by types, and samples are sent to the PHS's Division of...
Waiting Till Spring. The monkey-brain test is admittedly arbitrary, because no human being is likely ever to get the vaccine that way, even by accident. So some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain...
Amid all the conflicting hopes and claims, all authorities urged continued full use of Salk vaccine this year. Fortunately, 1961 is proving to be the lightest polio year on record since figures were first compiled in 1912, with only 234 paralytic cases to date, as against 680 at this time...