DOUBTS ABOUT VACCINE
“Poliomyelitis Not Yet Beaten” (Rec. 9 p.m.) GENEVA, April 14. The World Health Organisation’s expert on virus diseases, Dr. Anthony Payne, said today that there were sound reasons for believing poliomyelitis would be beaten within a few years, but he warned that it was not beaten yet. Commenting on the new antipoliomyelitis vaccine developed in the United States, Dr. Payne emphasised that unknown quantities still prevailed in preventive treatment of the disease. "Poliomyelitis is not yet beaten,” Dr. Payne said. “We do not know how long the effect of the vaccine lasts, if it will work in infants, and if it will be effective under conditions other than those in which It was used —we do not know how best to use it.” He said that other vaccines prepared by other methods were being investigated, and added: “We do not know which will eventually prove the best, but the work goes on and we have sound reasons to believe that poliomyelitis will be beaten within a few years.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27634, 15 April 1955, Page 13
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