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Laboratory men are growing polio virus in human tissues, hoping eventually to find a vaccine against the germ. Researchers have discovered ways to immunize mice partially. Other doctors are finding new means to help victims walk again by surgery and exercise, while psychologists are watching the effects on patients of...
Most revolutionary in the latter field is the work of a team of Harvard researchers at the Children's Medical Center. These men have found a new, less dangerous, less expensive way of growing polio virus in many type of human tissue. The discovery may aid in the development of...
Researchers cannot yet say for certain how polio spreads. The virus has been found in sewage and on flies, but there is no proof that human beings pick it up directly from either. The virus has been found in healthy people, showing that man can sometimes carry it without harm...
No Assurance. Last week, after a six-month study of the evidence, the 18-man Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association published a cautious verdict on BCG. The report conceded that the vaccine, properly administered, is harmless, and probably desirable among nurses, doctors, laboratory workers, members...
"There is no scientific support," the council concluded, "for the contention that BCG should be extended to all persons with the same assurance that can be recommended for smallpox vaccine or other immunizing agents. At present [its] general use . . . does not appear to be warranted and should not be encouraged...