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The Polio Vaccine: Friday, November 18, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Questions, Answers Following 1 the third in leries of articles dealing with questions and answers on the Salk anti-polio vaccine. The ar ticles were prepared by the .Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and released through the Jackson county chapter. Q. Is a dangers virus used in preparation of the Salk vaccine? A. All vaccines and nearly all drugs are made from material that is potentially dangerous, but the materials are refined or treated until they are not dan gerous when given in recom mended dosages. The Mahoney strain of polio virus, used in the polio vaccines, is before treat ment with formaldehyde a vir ulent strain. When properly in activated for use in the vaccine, however, it will not cause any illness. O. Is there more than one way (intramuscular) to administer the Salk vaccine? A- Yes. The intramuscular (into the muscle) injection was us4 In Dr. Salk's early investl gations and in the 1954 field trials, with good results. Some Use has been made of the lnier dermal method, notably in Den mark, but studies as to its ef fectiveness have not yet been completed, Inlerdermal injection means introducing the needle be tween layers of the skin, a diffi cult and time-consuming proced ure. Q. Is the National Foundation In charge of manufacturing and testing the vaccine? A. No. The vaccine is made by six pharmaceutical manufactur ers, under standards drawn up by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Public Health Service. Such gov ernment standards also govern the manufacture of other biolog ical products. Q. How are the companies who manufacture vaccine chosen? A. The National Foundation offered all makers of biologicals an opportunity to make vaccine for the 1954 field trials. Five chose to do so and vaccine from two was actually used. Later, the National Foundation made contracts with these five and one additional company to make vaccine for use in 1955 if the vaccine was licensed. These com panies have made all the vaccine furnished by the NFIP, and are the only companies so far li censed to produce Salk vaccine. The product, however, is not patented and may be made by any company desiring to make it. Q. How is vaccine made? A. The three known types of polio virus are grown on cells of monkey tissues in flasks or bottles. The tissue culture fluids, containing the virus, are treated with formaldehyde to destroy the ability of the virus to cause disease. This treatment is called "inactivation." The virus, how ever, retains its ability to stinv ulate the human body to produce its own polio-fighting antibodies The final vaccine consists of in activated virus of the three types know to cause polio. Q. What safety tests and pro cedures are now in effect? A. Large samples of material must be tested at repeated stages during the manufacturing pro cess both before and after the three types of virus are mixed. Virus may be reheated with for maldehyde only once. A random sampling test for live virus in the actual bottles in which the vaccine is shipped also must be conducted. Q. How are these safety tests checked? A. Protocols on all lots of vac cine are submitted by the manu facturers to the National Insti tute of Health. Protocols are de tailed descriptions of the manu facture and testing of each lot of vaccine, exceedingly long and complex. They are a sort of diary of the vaccine from the time manufacturing starts until it is completed. Markers must submit protocols even on lots of vac cine considered unacceptable and not submitted for use. One re quirement for licensing is that a pharmaceutical concern demon strate its ability to produce con sistently satisfactory vaccine.. Q. How many children have been vaccinated so far? A. Over 8,000,000 up to July 1. including those vaccinated last year in the field trial and almost 1,000,000 in Canada, 425,000 in Denmark. There were 440,000 who received the vaccine in 1954 and 6,500,000 who received first anois in isaa. inose who re ceived second shots this year have not yet been tabulated. Nayy Peify Officer Adopts German Child Bremerhaven, Germany (U.R) A navy petty officer who gave up a good assignment and his present and future leave time to adopt a German child was on his way home to the United States with his family today. Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Benjamin Brown of San Isidro, Calif., his wife Joan and their nine - month - old adopted son, Christopher, boarded the naval transport General Hodges Thursday. The Browns, childless in 10 years of marriage, spent their time in Frankfurt going through the adoption process. Brown used up 67 days of leave time, includ ing 37 days of time borrowed from the end of his next hitch. PLEADS INNOCENT Frank Kovacs (above), international ly famous pro tennis player, goes on trial at Santa Cruz, Cal., on a vagrancy charge in volving an eight-year-old girl. He pleaded innocent Statements Continue In Sherry Feng Trial Portland (U.R) The third murder trial of Sherry Fong continued today with opening statements from the defense and prosecution still not completed, Mrs. Fong is accused in the 1954 death of 16-year-old Diane Hank, a Portland high school girl whose body was found near Washougal, Wash. Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob- son, who recently declared a mis trial, yesterday denied two mo tions by Defense Attorney Irvin Goodman to declare another mis trial. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. AT 3T Aim's FiSliiliF Like finding 20.00 Strike Threatens Ruhr Iron Industry Dusseldorf, Germany (U.R) Labor and management repre sentatives worked today to avoid the first major strike in the vital Rhur iron and steel pro ducing industry in 28 years. Negotiators failed Thursday night to settle their, differences in a five-hour mediation session. But union leaders representing 165,000 workers postponed until Monday a final decision on whether to call a strike. Jeis To Cosl Less Than Bus To Ride Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Jet airplanes now in production will cost less to ride than buses and cut air freight rates by two thirds, an aircraft executive said today. Carl B. Squier, vice-president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. said two types of jet planes, turbo jets and propjets, were fast ap proaching mass production for civilian use. "These propjet planes will cargo at rates about one-third of those necessary now," Squier said. "The aircoach planes will have passenger-seat mile costs lower than anything we have today, lower even than present bus fares." He said orders for 190 jet and propjet civilian planes, at a total cost of $880,000,000, have been placed this year. He estimated sales would pass the $1,000,000, 000 mark by the end of the year. Squier told the local Chamber of Commerce meeting the planes under 'order were the Boeing 707 turbojet, the Douglas DC8 turbojet and the Lockheed Elec tra propjet. He said the Boeing and Doug las planes would carry from 100 to 140 passengers at 550 to 575 miles an hour and have a range of 3000 miles. The Lockheed propjet would carry 66 to 85 passengers at 410 miles an hour for hops between 200 and 2500 miles. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, foremost of the living ex plorers, was first to fly over both the North and South Poles. (Vodka in orange juice) It leaves you breathless mirnoff te qneaiest name -VODKA 80proof.Madefroml00grainneutraIspiti"ts. 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