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1954 Nobel Prize winner John F. Enders of the Medical School reported last night that the research methods he used in isolating the polio virus have now led to the first possible development of a preventive vaccine against messes.
He said he had "very suggestive" evidence that he has isolated and grown the long-sought measles virus. The technique used, he stated, is essentially the same "tissue culture" method that he and his associates developed in paving the way for the Salk polio vaccine.
¶ The program requires 120 workers to tabulate reports from 20,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses on each of 1,830,000 children in the trials (440,000 who got the vaccine, plus the 1,390,000 who did not). The mail supplying the 144 million necessary items of...
¶ Even trickier is the task of deciding whether a "polio victim" actually had polio, or some other disease that causes similar symptoms. Every case must be confirmed by virus tests. Then, physical therapists check again on the victim's neck muscles, breathing, use of legs and arms, ability...
Recognition of the great accomplishment of Enders & Co. came because it served as a steppingstone for Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29), who developed the actual polio vaccine. But to Connecticut-born John Enders, the polio virus discovery is an incident in a life dedicated to...