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Last week, as 3,000 delegates (among them, half a dozen of the founders) gathered in Atlantic City for the soth anniversary meeting of the N.T.A., the TB picture seemed radically different. The disease has slid from first to ninth place among causes of U.S. deaths, and the rate has...
As the second-graders trooped to the inoculation room in McLean, Va., Randall Kerr, 6, was where he had begged to be: at the head of the line. He was not only the first in Fairfax County, but the first child in the nation inoculated in the mass trials of...
Long, tedious manufacturing and testing the vaccine for safety had delayed the trials so that in some areas they had to be canceled. In the Atlanta district, where plans had been well made in advance (TIME, April 26), two cases of polio, one of them paralytic, had appeared unseasonably early...
Gamma globulin, Enders said also provides antibodies against polio, but in a passive way. Whereas the new vaccine presumably help a person to develop his own antibodies, gamma globulin only provides ready-made antibodies, he stated.
The Massachusetts school children who will get the vaccine, probably starting by May 15, are in the first to third grades. Some of these children wil receive the authentic vaccine, while others will get an innocuous substance and will be used as a control group to determine the results of...