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Dr. Gollan's work, said Dr. Maurice B. Visscher, head of Minnesota's department of physiology, makes the possibility of an anti-polio vaccine "very much greater than ever." But a lot of work remains to be done.
It is still too early to talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took...
Fortunately, all of Snedaker's pressmen were on the job-thanks to the U.S. Embassy, which helped supply vaccine, and to a private physician, who administered inoculations at the printing plant. Unfortunately, one of the two presses ("the big, automatic one, of course") chose this inopportune moment to break...
On Sept. 29,.. a U.S. Navy-chartered DC-4 flew in from the U.S. with enough anti-cholera vaccine for 200,000 people. Within two days, four more planes arrived, hightailing straight across the Atlantic. The U.N.'s World Health Organization rushed vaccine to nervous countries near Egypt. Planes...
Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution...