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Yellow Fever has been wiped off urban portions of the Western Hemisphere since 1927, but still exists as "jungle yellow fever" in the interior of South America, the interior of Africa, as far east as the Sudan. An excellent vaccine has been developed against the disease, but the Army is...
To add to its other inoculations,* the entire U. S. Army is to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Secretary Stimson gave the order last week. The vaccine, developed in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is made from yellow-fever virus grown on chick embryos. One dose immunizes against the deadly...
> A vaccine made from the herpes virus (allied to the fever blister and shingles virus) helps to prevent severe nervous degeneration if given over a period of several months. Dr. Neal has tried the vaccine on many patients, with apparently good result.
A similar vaccine has been developed to protect human beings from this form of the disease.
Although there is no preventive vaccine for epidemic encephalitis, laboratory workers all over the U.S. are trying to perfect one. Meanwhile, new treatments have been devised for the disease once it takes hold. During the past eleven years in the Neurological Institute, with grants from the William J. Matheson Commission...