INFANTILE PARALYSIS
PESSIMISTIC VIEW TAKEN IMMUNISATION PROSPECTS (Rec. 7 p.m ) LONDON, July 26. A leading article in the Lancet on infantile paralysis is pessimistic concerning the chances of controlling this disease, but is more hopeful on the question of immunisation against it. “ There are grounds for the view that at present the chances of preventing infantile paralysis are remote,” it says, “and that this tragic disease must be accepted as a risk inseparable from social life in human communities.”
It quotes a doctor as saying that control of the disease is impracticable, and that the only useful preventive measure is to stop the extraction of children’s tonsils during an epidemic. “ But,” it adds, referring to immunisation, “ it seems reasonable to forecast that the disease will in the end be robbed of its virulence, if not its spreading powers.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 4
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