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Waiting Till Spring. The monkey-brain test is admittedly arbitrary, because no human being is likely ever to get the vaccine that way, even by accident. So some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain to block general release of any oral vaccine this year except for an emergency stockpile for Government controlled use in epidemics. The National Foundation's Basil O'Connor snorted: "It is totally unorthodox to license part of a vaccine." Some manufacturers guessed that release of Type III oral...
Toward the Ideal. Many of the recorded failures of Salk vaccination (17% of paralysis victims last year had had three or more shots) were explained by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk himself. The commercial vaccine, he declared unequivocally, is only 50% effective (on the average) after a single shot. By simple arithmetic, he argued that two shots would be 75% effective, and three shots, 87.5%. Dr. Salk contrasted this with the efficacy of the hand-tooled vaccine made with craftsman care in his University of Pittsburgh laboratories: 90% effective after one shot, 99% after two, and 99.9% after three. Commercial vaccine...
This was the word last week at a University of Michigan symposium with which the National Foundation launched its 1959 March of Dimes. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk was more frank than ever before in conceding the ineffectiveness of an unspecified proportion of the commercial vaccine released, and contrasting it with the small batches made in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Dr. Salk has always stoutly insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began...
...reason for this. Some 70 million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine and develop no immunity, there is a widening pool of vaccinated subjects who may still get paralytic polio. But why do these people not respond? Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk has spent most of the summer studying non-responders. Last week all he would say was: "The essential point is that the proportion of individuals who do not respond is influenced by vaccine potency." Last summer there was considerable evidence (TIME, July 15, 1957) that some...
Palm Springs' Dr. Herman M. Salk (brother of Vaccinventor Jonas Salk) has pioneered with tranquilizers for dogs; they not only calm the patient, making him easier and safer to handle, but in many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...