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If U. S. soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine...
Exactly how the soap works-whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip-Drs. Stock & Francis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human beings.
An outstanding army medical research worker throughout the Spanish-American War, General Russell introduced the U. S. Army to the use of anti-typhoid vaccine. He invented the Russell double-sugar medium for cultivation of typhoid bacilli, there by permitting the isolation of the baccilli for study.
Still to be tried on a mass scale are new typhus vaccines which have been produced independently by breeding Rickettsiae on chicken eggs, both by Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans Zinsser and by Dr. Herald Rea Cox of the U. S. Public Health Service. About 8,000 doses of...