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Man & Monkey. Both Sabin and Cox asserted that there is enough evidence from millions of oral vaccinations in a score of foreign countries to show that their vaccines are safe and sure.* But each insisted that his own was better than either of its two rivals. (Dr. Sabin has attacked...
Dr. Cox disclosed that Lederle has already applied to the P.H.S.'s Division of Biologies Standards for a license to make generally available his one-swallow vaccine, now under extensive trial in Miami (TIME, Feb. 29) and Minnesota. Even this brought a demurral. Said Biologies Standards' Dr. Roderick...
Toward the Ideal. Many of the recorded failures of Salk vaccination (17% of paralysis victims last year had had three or more shots) were explained by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk himself. The commercial vaccine, he declared unequivocally, is only 50% effective (on the average) after a single shot. By simple...
Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman reported that his company (Merck Sharp & Dohme) just happens to have an improved vaccine handy-not yet as potent as Dr. Salk's ideal, but far better than the commercial average: 91% of vaccinated children were protected by only two shots, a month apart, said...
- Biggest consumer of an oral vaccine, mad locally to Sabin specifications, is the U.S.S.R. where 50 million people aged 2 to 20 have already had it, and 30 million more are scheduled to get it this year.