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While U.S. health officials still rely exclusively on Salk killed-virus vaccine in the fight against poliomyelitis, a dozen countries around the world are testing live-virus preparations-all developed, ironically, in the U.S. Early results are highly promising, and so far no ill effects have been reported despite the...
Leaders in perfecting live vaccines against polio have been the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin (TIME, May 23, 1955), and Dr. Hilary Koprowski. who began the work at Lederle Laboratories, then switched to Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. Dr. Sabin revisited his native Russia in 1956...
Chumakov began brewing Sabin-type vaccine at the Institute for the Study of Poliomyelitis, a rambling frame building among the railroad yards on Moscow's outskirts. Last week he was readying the world's biggest test of live polio vaccine, had 300 liters on ice-enough for 10...
¶The danger of severe outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis is greater this year than last because of public apathy about getting Salk shots, experts warned at a Manhattan meeting called by the National Health Council. Manufacturers are having to destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most...
Booster Now. Other symposium speakers agreed that the most urgent next step in the anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now...