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For all his evident missionary zeal, Dr. Hammon was quick to point out that gamma globulin is far from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from...
¶One of the biggest difficulties facing researchers in search of a polio vaccine has been the fact that polio virus could not be grown in a laboratory without rare and expensive nutrients for the virus to feed on (e.g., monkey testicles). Last week Dr. Herald R. Cox reported that...
The foundation emphasizes that gamma globulin is still in the experimental stage and that there is not much of it around. They are worried that doctors will use up the supply before they know whether it really works. Moreover, even if it does work, its usefulness will be that of...
The foundation later took on other diseases. It set up typhus teams in both Manhattan's East Side and in Algeria, taught Egypt how it might free itself from schistosomiasis-a disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails. It built the $8.000,000 Peking Union Medical College...
One way & another, the toll among U.S. troops has been held down to 25 deaths among 187 proved cases (there may have been almost 500 cases, all told, with many unidentified). The medics hope that their hunters and trappers will bring in samples of the responsible virus in the rabbits...