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The U.S. Public Health Service this week summoned its Committee on Live Poliovirus Vaccine to meet on its Bethesda, Md. campus to study reports of the oral vaccines' safety, potency and effectiveness. The evidence for the panel, headed by PHS's Dr. Roderick Murray, was confusing and often...
A major source of data is Florida's Dade County (Miami and environs), locale for the biggest U.S. field trial of any live-virus vaccine (TIME, Feb. 29). As of April 30, when Florida's polio season was beginning and authorities halted vaccinations to keep test results as...
Cause & Effect? The first and most vital question was: Is the vaccine safe? Last week Dade's Health Commissioner Turner E. Cato listed seven cases of paralytic polio in the county since vaccine feeding began-about average for the date. Two victims had not taken the vac cine, but...
Ever since Pasteur made his epochal discovery that inactive virus could give protection against rabies, thousands of bite victims each year have started the course of 14 shots. Many have quit because of severe and painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because...
In his new Medical Research Building at Pennsylvania, Kahn has put his principles to work by erecting great servant towers that suck in fresh air through nostrils at the base, throw off laboratory fumes from stacks that soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles...