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MY six-year-old son - had his polio shot . . . and seven days later, he got sick," Mrs. R. M. Adams of Puenten, Calif, wrote to us. She added an hour-by-hour report on her son's symptoms and made a fervent appeal for advice about polio vaccine. "I...
¶When P.H.S. licensed six firms to manufacture vaccine last April, both P.H.S. and the vaccine's developer. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, urged that manufacturers be required to show that they could produce safe vaccine consistently, in batch after batch. But this requirement was neither defined by P.H.S. nor...
The nation's top polio experts and health authorities got around last week to telling the public what had gone wrong, and how and why, with the grandiose plan to inoculate tens of millions of children with Salk polio vaccine in 1955. For the most part, they confirmed what...
¶In producing vaccine for 1954's trial vaccinations, authorities had many a moment of anguished doubt, because multiple testing in three separate laboratories (using supposedly identical methods) got conflicting results with the same material.
While the vaccine program was virtually halted last week, waiting for the Public Health Service to retest and release more of the dammed-up vaccine from manufacturers' warehouses, polio was speeding its seasonal march. Latest figures showed a week's total of 240 cases, the same as a...