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¶Virologist Robert Davies Defries 56 University of Toronto, for leadership in preventive medicine-his laboratories brewed most of the virus used in the Salk 1954 polio vaccine, made the bulk of Canada's 1955 vaccine.
But Republic of Korea health officials record 2,053 cases this year, 766 deaths. Japan reports 3,386 cases, 1,194 deaths-Japanese B far outstrips diphtheria, cholera, typhus and polio as a killer. After giving up to 500,000 inoculations with a killed-virus vaccine which proved too weak...
The Salk vaccine had nothing to do with most of the improvement in the figures, because only a small proportion of potential victims received it-and many of these got only one injection, of doubtful efficacy. However, the vaccine proved its usefulness: the drop in epidemic severity was much more...
¶ To combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service...
¶ Since production and testing procedures were drastically revised (TIME, June 6) there has been "no association" of polio' with any of the cleared vaccine.