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In the comic strips, measles is a joke. In much of the world the disease is treated lightly, partly from ignorance, partly because it is an almost certain incident of growing up. But measles is, in fact, all too often a killer or the cause of mental crippling. Last week...
To date, 303 U.S. children have had the test vaccine; virtually all have responded by developing solid antibody protection against natural measles. Most have had a slight fever in the process, but none have become seriously ill. If wider-scale testing confirms these results, the vaccine may be licensed and...
As soon as Gregg's epochal discovery was confirmed, researchers began to hunt for a protective vaccine and for proof that abnormalities might be caused by other virus diseases infecting the mother. So far they have had little luck. Mumps, said Dr. Rhodes, is next in line as a...
The fact that no new case of paralytic polio has developed in Dade County since May 3 is encouraging. In previous years, even since Salk, there have been as many as half a dozen. "On the surface," says a PHS epidemiologist, "the vaccine appears safe and efficient. But vaccines are...
Monkey Tricks. Other research under study at Bethesda raises the problem of ensuring the safety of any live-virus material grown in tissue cultures of monkeys' kidney cells. The kidneys of the monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus...