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Microbes could be happy if biologists thrived on publicity alone. For scientists can exterminate diseases only through tedious refinements, long after public attention has turned form such striking discoveries as the Salk vaccine. Although the vaccine still leaves 15-20 percent unprotected, the public is already beginning to think of...
Members of Congress have proposed a joint resolution which would express the gratitude of the nation to three University scientists whose work contributed to the development of the Salk polio vaccine.
Although the two resolutions are not identical, both state that Enders, Weller, and Robbins paved the way for the final development of the vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk when, in 1949, they discovered that the virus can multiply in tissue from primates.
Six big U.S. pharmaceutical firms* are now producing Salk vaccine or hurrying to get into production. The vaccine works on a principle that has already provided protection against such traditional plagues as smallpox and yellow fever. When they attack human beings or other mammals, most viruses stimulate the invaded system...
Never before in history had a medical development been big, instantaneous news over a large part of the world. Such a momentous item as Fleming's penicillin moldered for years in musty libraries before laymen heard of it. Last week's report on the Salk vaccine was good...