VIRUS VACCINE.
Use in Infantile Paralysis
Stopped.
INJECTIONS CAUSE DEATHS
NEW YORK, December 27.
The city health, officials announced yesterday that they had stopped the use of poliomyelitis virus vaccine against infantile paralysis, after a report in the journal of the American Medical Association declaring that 12 cases of .paralysis, six of which were fatal, had developed from injections.
Dr. William Park, co-developer of the vaccine, said he had used it on 9000 children, with only one fatality and one doubtful case.
Meanwhile, research workers at the Rockefeller Institute announce that they have extensively tested a chemical method for combating paralysis, which has been used on monkeys and a few human beings with considerable success and no untoward symptoms. It consists of dropping or spraying into the nose solutions of either sodium alum or tannic acid.
Virus vaccine, prepared from cases which have recovered, is used in New Zealand without any untoward result. The message suggests either that a more potent form of serum is being used in the States, or that, there has been some mistake in its preparation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 9
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