POLIOMYELITIS RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 9

POLIOMYELITIS RESEARCH

New Steps Taken By British Doctors (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 20 Gravely perturbed at the increased incidence of poliomyelitis in Western Europe—the number of cases doubled last year—the British medical authorities are taking two major steps to tight the disease. The first is to form two units in Scotland, to investigate the type of poliomyelitis in which the muscles of respiration are so severely paralysed that artificial respiration has to be used to keep the patients alive. These units will be set up in two Glasgow hospitals, it was announced tonight by an official of the Western Regional Hospital Board in Glasgow . (Dr. A. K. Bowman). Doctors from both hospitals earlier this year visited Denmark during the poliomyelitis epidemic there, and saw the desperate measures taken to try to save patients’ lives. , The second step is the establishment in Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, of a special laboratory unit to study the poliomyelitis virus. The Scottish doctors will have the help of the Advisory Committee on Medical Research and the Medical Research Council, studying the spread of the disease and the production of vaccines.

Recent American discoveries have given doctors good reason to hope that practical vaccines will be available within a few years.

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