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John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, one of 14 Faculty members on the 21-man committee, explained yesterday that the decision was made because of difficulties in manufacturing the vaccine and in developing adequate safety checks.
Enders, who with Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins of Western Reserve won the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing the polio virus, cautioned that there was "nothing permanent" about the decision. Enders added that "everything points to ultimate success...
As a result of the decision, Massachusetts will not continue the program of inoculation of school children which it began last spring. Private physicians can still use the vaccine if they please, but the tone of the report discourages this. Apparently many doctors have been waiting for the committee's...
1. "Possible presence of living virus in vaccine."
6. "The potential hazard to unvaccinated persons "from carriers of a live virus in the vaccine employed.