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The Massachusetts Polio Advisory Committee will not approve any further use of the Salk vaccine at this time, the group announced yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The scientific courts judging the Salk polio vaccine have had an exasperating way of reversing themselves. Now it's safe, now it isn't. Now it works, now it doesn't quite. In Kansas City last week, 6,000 members of the American Public Health Association listened...
The verdict was that the vaccine was generally safe and effective. Normally cautious Epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir of the U.S. Public Health Service reported, on the basis of returns from eleven states plus New York City, that the vaccine had been 75% effective, or better, in preventing paralytic polio among children...
Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven...
The PHS's Surgeon General Dr. Leonard Scheele then read a report by his technical committee on the most recent steps to make the vaccine safer. There were "striking differences," said Scheele, in "the degree of clarity of the different fluids" from which the various manufacturers have prepared vaccine...