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When the Salk vaccine proved successful in 1955. six drug firms were licensed to produce the vaccine. Exhorted by the U.S. Public Health Service to produce as fast as they could, the companies turned out more than 205 million doses of vac cine through 1957. sold 103.5 million doses to...
At the time, the Government raised no objection to the price (63? to 70? per dose). In the rush to get the vaccine, it had asked for sealed bids instead of negotiating prices, which would have allowed the Government to inspect company records on costs.
As bat rabies spread over Brazil, the government tried desperate countermeasures. It set up 15 centers to produce rabies vaccine, but immunity given by it wore off in a few months. Specially trained bat-killers attacked the bats' home caves with flamethrowers, dynamite and poison gas. They chopped down...
They began using the telephone number last summer for recorded answers to a deluge of queries about Salk vaccine inoculations. This month, alarmed at an upsurge in VD that is giving the U.S. 1,000,000 new cases of gonorrhea a year (20% among youngsters aged 15 to 19), they...
*Though Johns Hopkins' Dr. Winston H. Price recently announced a vaccine that has shown promise against a virus strain prevalent in the Baltimore area (TIME, Sept. 30).