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While the Salk vaccine proved to be "60% to 90% effective," polio remained, by shifting targets, a major problem. It used to be primarily a disease of the oft-diapered, well-scrubbed upper-income groups, whose infants were protected against the mild (often undetectable) infections that give immunity against later...
Salk vaccine shots were so ignored in Detroit this summer that doctors and druggists had to return outdated supplies. Last week, with a growing epidemic, Detroit was the worst polio spot in the U.S. Statistics: 464 current cases (230 paralytic) and 14 deaths, against a total of 163 cases and...
Paralytic polio rose ominously in August, announced the U.S. Public Health Service. Each week's total cases considerably topped those in the comparable weeks last year. In the week ending Aug. 23 there were 144 cases (43 in Michigan, mainly in Detroit), against 96 for the same week of...
First man to prick the bubble of the Soviet claims was George W. A. Dick of Queen's University, Belfast: he charged that the Russian "vaccine" was actually a preparation perilously akin to live rabies virus; as a treatment, it did no good and was potentially dangerous.
Recently, Dr. Dick visited Moscow. Dr. Antonina K. Shubladze (TiME, Nov. 11), co-discoverer of the controversial vaccine, went over his data. Last week readers of the British Medical Journal were treated to the unusual spectacle of a public, nonpolitical recantation by a Russian scientist. Said a letter from Moscow...