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Just as the Public Health Service was using one hand last week to press the starter button and get the stalled polio vaccine program running again, one of its spokesmen disclosed how close the U.S. had been to unimaginable disaster. Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr., director of the PHS'...
No specific reason has yet been found to explain why two lots of vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories should have touched off polio infections in so many cases (69 at week's end), but Dr. Sebrell went on:
The polio discoveries of Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and two other Faculty members led to the development of the Salk vaccine, Enders' isolation of the measles virus may be the first step toward the possible conquest of the disease.
Also on its outside experts' advice, the PHS advised local authorities to go ahead giving second shots all through the polio season, because the "slight immunity resulting from the first dose of vaccine will most likely provide protection against any [harmful] effect." Yet even while the PHS talked of...
All week the air was full of brickbats for Secretary Hobby and her department, although President Eisenhower defended her (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In retrospect, a good deal of the blame for the vaccine snafu also went to the National foundation, which, with years of publicity, had built up the danger...