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U.S. doctors were on the alert against flu. It had struck promptly after World War I, killing 500,000 in the U.S. within four months, and another postwar epidemic may be due. But there will be no such toll as last time: a new Army-tested vaccine (TIME, April 3...
The Army inoculated some 7,000,000 G.I.s, found in large-scale tests that the vaccine gave protection in three cases out of four. Last week the first mass civilian inoculation began at Yale University. The University health office, anticipating an epidemic of Type A influenza, planned to vaccinate most...
Developed by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. at the University of Michigan, the vaccine is made by growing influenza virus in fertile hens' eggs, then killing the virus. The dead virus, injected under the skin, creates protective antibodies. A single small injection (one cubic centimeter) usually gives a year'...
For Anthrax. Primarily a disease of cattle and sheep, anthrax also attacks man, producing an infectious, often fatal, skin ailment. The only known protection: immunization by vaccine. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, four Army & Navy researchers announced that penicillin had cured 25 cases of anthrax...
Tracking a Cure. Medical scientists think they have turned up some promising leads for polio cure. One of them: a vaccine made of polio virus inactivated by ultraviolet rays; it has been successful in immunizing laboratory mice, but is still to be tested on monkeys and human beings.