NEW POLIO VACCINE
High Immunity Rate Predicted LONDON, December 4. A more potent and safer form of Salk anti-polio vaccine is being developed in Britain to give nearly 100 per cent, immunity to everyone who has three injections. The new vaccine could be mixed with' others in a four-in-one “cocktail” to protect children against diseases such as diphtheria and whooping cough, said the “Daily Mail.” Three British firms are working on the improved vaccine. A version of it has already been brought out in America. The new vaccine, which might be produced next year, would mean that immunity could be lifted from the present 70 per cent, to at least 90 per cent., the newspaper said. Allergic side-effects in some persons would be eliminated and the time which protection lasted could be extended with very few injections. Doctors predicted that the new Salk vaccine would make polio as rare in the next five years as diphtheria was today, the “Daily Mail” added.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29380, 6 December 1960, Page 17
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