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Is the Needle to Blame? It now appears that a vaccine can pass rigorous tests and still not be safe for human beings; it seems possible that the arm muscle of the young human animal is the most sensitive of all testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though...
While virologists were still trying to decide whether Dr. Salk's "killed" virus vaccine was safe, or how it could be made safer (see above), other experts argued that the killed-virus idea should be abandoned altogether. Leader of this school:
Short or Long. To buttress his arguments-that a live virus is better and confers longer immunity-Researcher Sabin went to the Eskimos. In one of their isolated communities immunity against polio was shown to have endured for 40 years after the last previous encounter with the virus. Use of...
But is the live vaccine safe? Dr. Salk, for one, does not think so. Although the live-virus method has been used successfully in the long-established smallpox and yellow fever vaccines, he believes that the polio virus is too tough and tricky to permit development in safe, nonvimlent form...
Taking a long leap into a hypothetical future, Dr. Sabin foresaw a day when babies will have their throats swabbed with his vaccine before they are six months old, while they are still protected by inherited antibodies. Or, others sug gest, people of any age could get tem porary immunity...