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For children, the new Army-tested influenza vaccine (TIME, Oct. 7) seems to be almost as bad as flu itself. Pediatricians have found that, for reasons still unexplained, children react to the vaccine much more violently than adults; as little as one-tenth of the normal adult dose (one cc...
The U.S. Public Health Service, busy searching for a cure for mumps, last week reported a dividend: a vaccine, highly successful in immunizing monkeys, and now being tested with human volunteers. The vaccine uses virus from mumps convalescents; the virus is first cultured in chick embryos, then killed by ether...
For children, to whom mumps is ordinarily not serious, the vaccine would have little meaning. But to grownups, it was good news. Reasons:1)the mumps virus often attacks the sex glands of men & women, may cause sterility; 2) the aftermath of mumps may be meningoencephalitis, deafness, or nephritis (inflammation...
A hog-growing venture was already under way. Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera. Rockefeller will subscribe $200,000 to the project, which will probably include a demonstration farm near São Paulo, but Brazilians will...
Brucellosis can be stopped at its source by 1) vaccination and 2) killing infected animals. But the cost is high. At last week's Congress, delegates heard a hopeful report from a veteran fighter against the disease: Dr. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College announced a new vaccine which...