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Thus, routinely, news of the mass vaccination trials to prove the value of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine (TIME, Mar. 29) seeped down to the grass roots. Said the school's principal, Sid Clark: "The children understand that something pretty important is being done. They understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pioneers | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

The facts: the batches of vaccine containing live virus were all from pilot runs by manufacturers tooling up for the mass inoculations planned by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (TIME, March 29). None made according to Dr.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Safety | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Scare story of the week, aired by Gossipist Walter Winchell in his Sunday-night broadcast: "New polio vaccine . . . may be a killer . . . The U.S. Public Health Service tested ten batches . . . found that seven contained live, not dead, polio virus. It killed several monkeys ..."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Safety | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Salk's final specifications has been rejected. Authorities agree that the vaccine used will be as safe as medical knowledge can contrive. Rejections of trial-run batches prove nothing against the vaccine's safety-only that the tests are doing what they were set up to do.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccine Safety | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

'This year's mass trials are the greatest gamble in medical history," says a polio researcher, who, admittedly, favors a live-virus vaccine. But the gamble is sure to pay off one way or another. If the Salk vaccine is effective for even one season, 1954 will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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