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What with the Salk vaccine and the surge into space, the cold war, the compact car, and the thousand and one triumphs and follies that enlivened the decade, our artist couldn't begin to cover it all. But as we move into a new decade of news, we'...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught...
There is very little doctors can do about it. One promising vaccine against "B"-type viruses developed at Johns Hopkins University (TIME, March 4, 1957) has not yet proved its worth; the few vaccines against "A" encephalitis forms are still laboratory curiosities. Nor have health authorities often had success in...
¶The nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273...
¶ Live-polio-virus vaccines, in wide use outside the U.S., are still not really safe for general use as a public-health measure, says Baylor University's Dr. Joseph Melnick after a study of such vaccines. Melnick told the fifth Congress of Biological Standardization in Jerusalem that, while...