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Unless there is a dramatic and unexpected reversal of trends, 1959 will be the worst year for poliomyelitis in the U.S. since 1955, when the Salk vaccine became generally available. With the peak not expected for another month, the U.S. Public Health Service reported last week that polio is almost...
Still hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W...
The National Foundation was in a flurry of activity grimly reminiscent of pre-vaccine days. It flew eleven iron lungs to Des Moines, and other respiratory equipment to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Ocleans, Nashville, Tenn., and Chapel Hill, N.C. The foundation also flew six nurses and...
Other researchers promptly tried to duplicate Gross's results. One was Dr. Sarah E. Stewart, a tall, vivacious microbiologist turned physician and working in Baltimore for the National Institutes of Health. As so often happens in medical research, she did not get what she was looking for, but she...
Vaccination? By now, the SE (for Stewart-Eddy) polyoma (multiple-tumor) virus has hurdled the species barrier and caused cancers not only in mice but in rats and in Syrian and Chinese hamsters. In rabbits, for some strange reason, it causes only benign tumors. So far, Drs. Stewart and Eddy...