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Eight University doctors yesterday gave final approval for Massachusetts to participate in one of the biggest public health experiments in history, the nation wide tests of the Salk polio vaccine.
As members of a special 11-man advisory committee, the doctors decided that there can be no danger in mass trials of the new vaccine that is supposed to prevent infantile paralysis.
It is expected that within a year the vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh, will provide an answer to the question of whether or not infantile paralysis has been conquered.
In addition to their role yesterday in approving the polio tests for Massachusetts, Harvard doctors have contributed research indispensable to the large-scale manufacture of the vaccine. Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, and Dr. Leonard...
"We will just have to wait and see," Dr. Enders said yesterday when asked whether the Salk vaccine will prove the final answer to the polio problem. He explained, however, that the vaccine seems to produce antibodies in the blood which counteract all three kinds of polio.