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The American Medical Association has consistently backed Salk vaccine as the most effective means of preventing paralytic poliomyelitis. Last week in seeming contradiction, the A.M.A. Journal printed a judgment that "much of the Salk vaccine used in the U.S. has been worthless" - a charge that could snarl plans to get...
The Journal's seeming switch came on its "Questions and Answers" page, where it printed an inquiry from an anonymous Wisconsin doctor asking about the value of Salk shots. To provide an expert answer, the Journal selected Dr. Herbert Ratner, health commissioner of Oak Park, Ill., who has been...
The facts are that some Salk shots have been worthless because the vaccine lost its potency with age, or because manufacturers, determined to make it safe, overdid the job of inactivating the virus. Despite this, overall effectiveness of Salk vaccine in preventing paralytic polio has ranged statistically from 75% to...
In this acrid atmosphere, the committee could only play it safe. It recommended immediate, intensified efforts to get Salk shots into young children and young adults, the two most vulnerable age groups. Dr. Sabin won a grudging endorsement: "The PHS should continue to make every effort to encourage the early...
* The Soviet Union's top polio authority, Professor Mikhail Chumakov, boasted last week that 77 million Russians have taken Sabin vaccine (made in Moscow), and that the threat of seasonal polio epidemics has gone.