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Among the 1.000,000 children that the foundation hopes to vaccinate there would be (by recent U.S. averages) 700 cases of detectable polio this summer. Of these. 483 would, sooner or later, recover completely, 175 would have some permanent paralysis and 42 would die. The value of Dr. Salk'...
Endemic & Epidemic. It is still too early to answer the question, "Is this the year of victory over polio?" But there is good reason to believe that the Salk vaccine, or one of several on which work is proceeding in other laboratories, will give effective protection against the disease. This...
The Great Breakthrough. Five years ago came the great breakthrough in the campaign to conquer polio. There had already been ill-starred attempts to make a vaccine, but in everything that they tried to do the researchers were hampered by one stubborn fact: most kinds of polio virus, it seemed...
A team of Harvard researchers headed by the brilliant virologist, John F. Enders, reported in Science in January 1949 that they had succeeded in growing polio viruses in tissue cultures of non-nervous tissues. From the obscure technical lan guage they used, only another virologist could have divined the explosive...
Some critics object to Salk's use of the Mahoney-(Type I) strain of virus because if any live particles slipped through they could cause severe paralysis after injection into muscle. Dr. Salk answers that if no live particles can get through, it cannot matter what they might do...