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Chief of the investigation is pink-cheeked Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes, who in 1933 discovered that ferrets could be infected with influenza, thereby paving the way for experiments which produced a flu vaccine. The common cold is different: only chimpanzees and human beings catch it. Chimpanzees are scarce and costly...
Wary of the impending epidemic or pandemic of influenza, the medical authorities at Yale recently vaccinated, free of charge, every student in the university. Harvard has not followed suit for a number of reasons. The only vaccines which have been developed so far are not effective against the dangerous pandemic...
But if the Hygiene Department is justified in withholding vaccinations, it cannot afford to point with pride at the empty beds in Stillman and dismiss the problem. If the charts are to be believed, a world already weakened by war stands on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic. The...
Next step: to inactivate the virus (by ultraviolet radiation or chemicals) and produce a concentrated vaccine that might prevent polio.
Why the drop? The new flu vaccine? Unlikely, thought experts; the Army, with fewer troops and fewer troop movements, has given no shots this year; civilian vaccination has not been widespread. Possible explanation: a decline in civilian (and G.I.) travel, fewer mass meetings, an end to factory swing shifts, more...