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Army has beaten strong Yale, but the Cadets have also lost to weaker teams such as Dartmouth and Brandeis. Nevertheless, Army's Ed Weaver, 6-foot 4-inch center, and high scorer Bill Hannon should help to make the game close...
Research Director Harry Weaver told the top brass of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that a way has been found to treat polio virus with chemicals so that it is 1) too weak to cause the disease, but 2) still capable, when injected, of inducing the human system to manufacture antibodies. These antibodies (tiny protein particles in the blood) will protect the subject against a later invasion of full-strength polio virus. Admittedly, said Dr. Weaver, when the virus is weakened for injection, so is its power to spark antibody formation. But it keeps more of this power...
Monkeys First. "I would like to be able to announce that field tests with such a vaccine will be undertaken during 1953," Dr. Weaver went on, but he could not say this for certain. Nevertheless, he had the feeling that the attack on polio was about to make a big advance...
...Behind Weaver's weeds stand years of painstaking work by Virus Researcher Jonas Salk in University of Pittsburgh laboratories. Dr. Salk and his co-workers take samples of all three varieties (the Lansing, Prunhilde and Leon strains) of polio virus and grow them in test tubes with pieces of monkey testicle. They grind up this stuff and treat it with formaldehyde. There is doubt as to whether the chemical "kills" the virus, but no doubt that it knocks it cold. Dr. Salk has taken some of the resulting vaccine and injected it into monkeys. Within three weeks, samples...
...Salk's labs can probably make enough vaccine for Dr. Weaver's field test this year. But if the test succeeds, it will take at least another year to get mass-production quantities of vaccine...