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Burney's predecessor, who was involved in last year's troubles over polio-vaccine distribution, resigned (with a disability pension) to take a $60,000-a-year job. By a recent act of Congress, the new Surgeon General receives $22,626 annually-$5,826 more than Dr. Scheele...
Since the ambitious program to inoculate U.S. children with Salk polio vaccine got under way 16 months ago, the U.S. Public Health Service has allocated the vaccine to each state to ensure a fair distribution. Last Week, as his last official act as Surgeon General, Dr. Scheele took note of...
Many other states have had difficulty us ing up their allotments of Salk vaccine, and last week 17 states (twelve of them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the...
Outside the Board of Health and at three other clinics, working-class mothers lined up with infants in arms and toddlers tugging at their skirts, filed into the emergency inoculation room. There was plenty of vaccine (156,000 shots), and Bundesen bought 50,000 lollipops to ease the needles'...
¶ In the famed University of Pittsburgh laboratories where the Salk polio vaccine was invented, Dr. Gisela Ruckle, a German émigrée, reported that she had grown 25 generations of the measles virus in test tubes. The virus had hitherto defied domestication; now researchers may be able to...