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After months of chauvinistic resistance against using the U.S. Salk polio vaccine, ostensibly because the British-made vaccine is better and safer (TIME, Aug. 26), the British government finally capitulated last week. Admitting that its own vaccine is in critically short supply, the Public Health Ministry ordered "forthwith" enough Salk...
¶Preliminary tests on 55 volunteers at the state correction institution at Patuxent. Md. show the vaccine gives "definite"* protection against Asian flu. Those who came down with flu despite taking shots had no complications. A combination of shots and isolation kept the disease from spreading to other patients.
¶The vaccine, in reduced dosages, is now considered safe for children, even though youngsters are more susceptible than adults to fever reactions from the shots. Recommended dosages: two shots of 0.1 cc. each, one to two weeks apart for children under five, two shots of 0.5 cc. each for...
With 1,149.610 doses of vaccine already released, the rush for protection has begun. An estimated 30.000 cases of Asian flu have already been reported in the U.S., and demand for shots is heavy. Among groups who have received shots so far: transport workers in Seattle, policemen in Kansas City...
*As "definite" as any flu vaccine can be expected to be. The Asian flu vaccine's rate of effectiveness (70%) compares with those for smallpox (nearly 100%) and polio (85-90%).