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The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley. Calif. (TIME, May 9, et seq.). Doctors suspected that some of the vaccine must have contained live virus. Last week, after four months of investigation...
¶Several laboratories are working on the problem of finding a Type I strain of virus that will produce immunity, but with less danger of accidentally causing paralysis than the Mahoney strain now used in the Salk vaccine, reported Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele in the A.M A Jour-ml...
¶ After tests on 1,000 people subject to ivy poisoning, the University of Pennsylvania is convinced that a vaccine prepared by Lederle Laboratories is a safe and effective preventive. But since it is not yet known how much vaccine to give or how often, it will not be available...
The 1955 polio season made history by its unique sendoff: the statisticians had scarcely begun feeding figures into their machines for the new disease year, beginning in April, when the Cutter vaccine incident broke, and it became clear that some of the Salk vaccine contained live virus. Almost at once...
¶Shouted through a bill authorizing the Surgeon General of the U.S. to assist the states through grants-in-aid in providing free polio vaccine to persons under 20 and to expectant mothers. As sent to the House of Representatives, the bill left the specific amount of aid open for...