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Most of the U.S. has shown a gratifying decline in paralytic poliomyelitis this year, but Rhode Island has a polio epidemic: So cases with five deaths since June 8. The Navy captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes...
Will mothers be willing to have their children get a vaccine that provokes these reactions? The investigators think so. In fact, it would seem that the reactions are a good thing: they constitute evidence that the vaccination has taken. And despite high temperatures, the vaccinated children did not get sick...
In 1948, while his lab was partly financed by a grant from the National Foundation, Enders took a flyer in polio virus culture. With Drs. Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, he found a way to grow the virus so that a safe vaccine could be made. For this work, on...
From its isolation in 1954 until it could be attenuated for trial as a vaccine in monkeys, the Edmonston strain took almost four years of exquisitely refined laboratory techniques and testing. Dr. Enders put a series of assistants to work on it in turn. Each kept the virus growing while...
Encouraging Tests. Dr. Katz began needle work on children. (Dr. Enders, no M.D., cannot give injections to human subjects.) The first dozen cases were encouraging enough for the Boston group to send vaccine to pediatric researchers in New York (Staten Island), Cleveland and Denver. Of the first 171 who had...