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Before Dr. Burney's announcement, front runner among three U.S. groups seeking approval of a live-virus vaccine had been New York's Lederle Laboratories, using strains developed by Dr. Herald R. Cox. These have been put into a one-swallow, trivalent vaccine that 413,316 residents of...
By next summer, or fall at the latest, Americans will be able to take their polio vaccination in three month-apart swallows of live-virus vaccine instead of being dependent on the hypodermic needle for injections of the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of...
To supplement at first, but not necessarily to replace, Dr. Jonas E. Salk's killed vaccine, the PHS Committee on Live Poliovirus Vaccine selected the live but attenuated strains developed by the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin. Whereas the Salk vaccine's virus particles...
Capsule or Teaspoon. The Sabin vaccine, which, like the Salk, is grown in monkey kidney cells, has been tested on a small scale in the U.S. but used wholesale in the U.S.S.R., where almost 80 million people have now taken it in various forms and on different dosage schedules. Full...
The Hypospray, first offered to doctors in 1947, has found few takers outside the Navy. It is costly: $2,000 a copy originally, now down to $1,200. Its greatest advantage is speed. It can be loaded with enough vaccine for 55 shots, can give 1,200 an hour, does...