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...jury, the first two answers were easy: yes on both counts. The issue of negligence developed into a long-distance battle between two giants of medical science. From Pittsburgh came a massive, 142-page deposition by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk, called by the plaintiffs' resourceful, aggressive Attorney Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli (pronounced bell-eye). Though Dr. Salk expressed no overt criticism of Cutter, if the jury believed him it had to conclude that something went wrong at Cutter. For Salk stuck doggedly to his view that the killing of polio virus with formaldehyde solution to make a safe...
Polio is on the rise in the tropics and in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe. Specialists gave two explanations. The World Health Organization's Dr. Anthony M.M. Payne argued that the increase is apparent, not real, and the result of better diagnosis. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk offered the second explanation. "This is a disease of civilization." he said. "As countries adopt higher standards of public hygiene and sanitation, and infant mortality decreases, you get a greater number of children with no natural immunity against the disease." This probably explained recent polio flare-ups in parts of southern Europe...
With the possibility that some, even many, shots are being given with inert material, there arises the danger that the U.S. public is being lulled into a false sense of security about polio. While Vaccinventor Jonas Salk is suggesting that the present three-shot course of inoculations could be cut to two, more conservative polio experts are arguing that more shots, not fewer, are needed. Not enough time has elapsed, and not enough children inoculated with commercial vaccine have been tested, to show whether antibody levels high enough to give immunity are maintained for more than a year...
...Basil O'Connor's birthday conference, Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk had fun with what he admitted was a flight of fancy: that the kind of vaccine he developed against polio might some day be used against other diseases, including ulcers. Many viruses, Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur...
...jampacked session on Navy Pier, four experts led by Vaccinventor Jonas Salk pronounced a favorable verdict. One year and 40 million inoculations after the initial flurry of accidents, controversy and fumbling, the vaccine has been vindicated. Said Dr. Salk in an unwontedly cautious, indirect statement: "Inferences that the theoretical considerations were unsound or were not applicable . . . seem not to have been supported by time...