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Vaccine Snafu
I suggest that the article on the mishandling of the Salk vaccine, under the heading "Medicine" [May 16], would have been more appropriate under "National Affairs," "Business" or "Theater"-for obvious reasons. Should not the whole tragic circumstance point a moral-that medical problems be handled by the medical profession...
Safe, Safer? The more the authorities congratulated themselves on the new tests, the more (by implication, at least) did they condemn the old. PHS's Dr. James Shannon said that the revisions provide "more frequent and sensitive testing on what we now believe to be a more rational basis...
Use of the original "safe" vaccine had been followed by 113 cases of polio among the vaccinated. Last week an additional ten were among Cutter subjects. But because four full weeks had passed since Cutter inoculations were stopped, and the incubation period for polio is rarely more than 31 days...
Across the country, the needlework that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had sought to hasten for 8,500,000 first-and second-graders was being stilled. More and more parents were withdrawing permission. Virtually all the vaccine that had been approved and re-approved was used up. Dr. Scheele...