IMMUNITY ?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7

IMMUNITY ?

VACCINE DEVELOPED.

Infantile Paralysis Research In U.S.A. . TESTS ON ANIMALS. ;United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) NEW YORK, December 21. Great interest has been created here "by the announcement made by the Long Island College of Medicine Infantile Paralysis Commission, through the director, Dr. Kramer, that it has developed immunisation vaccine which has proved effective in immunising three-quarters of the animals tested, the ratio of immunisation being fully as high as that of standard vaccines, for instance, diphtheria vaccine. The Australian Press Association requested Dr. Morgan, of the Commonwealth Health Department, who is touring the United States, studying advances made in serum therapy, to comment on the announcement. He said that while lie had investigated various infantile paralysis treatment methods in Europe, and intended to do so in the United States, he had not yet had the opportunity to inquire into the Long Island method. Dr. Morgan added, however: "It sounds possible. It sounds quite all right." He said he knew Dr. Kramer's work by repute. Dr. Kramer to-day stated: "We have reason to expect that this vaccine, which is non-toxic, will be effective on human beings." He issued a warning, however, to the effect that much remains to be done'before infantile paralysis vaccine is available for general use. Dr. Morgan, who intends to visit the .Albany State Laboratory, the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, the Harvard Medical School and the Federal Health Department, Washington, before returning to Australia on January 17, intimated that lie would make further inquiries into the Long Island methods.