Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1955 — Page 11

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Fight Against Polio Is Long And Uphill Battle

(Editor’s note: This is the last of four articles describing the long battle against polio and telling what remains to be done.) By EDWIN DIAMOND ANN AfftßOß, Mich. (INS) — What is ahead in the polio fight? Is the disease definitely and finally defeated? Even before the announcement that the Salk vaccine is safe and effective in preventing all three types of paralytic polio, there was general agreement that polio could and would be controlled by a vaccine granting prolonged immunity. Several other vaccine methods were being developed at the same time Dr. Jonas E. Salk was working with his "killed” virus. But the licensing of the Salk vaccine and its use before the onset of the “polio season" in June does not mean that this polio research will stop now. • Dr. Salk himself has no intention of stopping. Ever since last summer’s mass field trials involving his vaccine, he has been working with his associates at the University of Pittsburgh to Improve iUs effectiveness. There are other projects going forward with vaccines. One of the most important 1s at Michael Reese hospital in Chicago. There doctors are treating polio virus with ultraviolet irradiation instead of the formalin chemical used by Dr. Salk in making' his vaccine. It might be a better process. ' The Michael Reese research foundation, under Dr. Albert M. Wolf, is co-operating with the Illinois Department of Health on an

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inoculation program using this radiation-killed virus. Dr. Wolf reports that initial results are encouraging. . Also in Chicago, Dr. George Le Roy, associate dean of the division of biological sciences at the University of Chicago, has offered an explanation for sortie of the “paradoxes of pq^p”—the apparent increase in cases in the more advanced countries and the rise in the “age-incidence" of polio. Dr. Le Roy points out it Is maintained now by infectious diabase specialists that polio is caused by a virus which may be produced in the human body and excreted in the body wastes. In a society such ds ours, Dr. Le Roy says, with our modern plumbing and sanitary conditions, there is not the constant exposure to polio virus doctors find in such “outdoor plumbing areas” as the Middle East and Asia. With no mild natural polio exposure occuring to build up our disease-fighting antibodies, when the one big dose comes the result is paralytic polio. One of the most experienced workers in the polio vaccine field is Dr. Albert B. Sabin, professor of research pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. It is Dr. Sabin's theory that there are both good and bad polio viruses occurring in nature. He explained: “The bad virus causes paralytic polio; the good virus gives us infection without dangerous consequences and hence grants us immunity from later bad virus. “Where there are epidemics, you can be sure there are these

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bad viruses.” He hopes to isolate the natural good virus or alternatively, to produce it in the laboratory. He believes a vaccine made from such a virus would be the best possible protection against polio. Such a vaccine would be cheap to prepare and readily available. Dr. Sabin has experimented with the “live” Virus on volunteers from an Ohio prison (the Chillicothe reformatory). He will report on these results dt the may meeting of the American Association of Physicians. Homemaking Tips By Miss Bertha Landis Home Demonstration Agent “Spring is sprung, the grass is riz’, I wonder where the posies is?” Probably if you have seen no flowers beginning to open around your home, it is because there are none planted. The beauty and fragrance of flowers around the home add a warmth and simplicity which nothing else can provide. , Flower garden plants are subject to injury by many different insects and related animal pests. Some of these damage leaves, buds, and blossoms; others tundel through the stems nad roots. The habits of Insects, likewise, vary in regard to the kind of plant upon which they feed. Although insects are always present in the flower garden, it is difficult to predict when they will appear in destructive numbers. With the exception of plant lice and a few others that are usually numberous enough to require control meas-

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ures each growing season, most insect outbreaks occur only in certain years or season of the year. This may be a result of their normal life cycles, or it may be due to weather conditions. In any event, the great variety of plants grown in the flower garden, combined with the many pbsts that beset them, make it necessary to maintain a constant watch for early signs of insect trouble. Contact your county extension office in the federal building for more information on roses, tulips, gladiolus, dahlias, chrysanthemums and wild flowers; how to control pests of the flower garden, and principles of flower arrangement. Wolf Reward VIENNA, (INS) — The Bulgarian Communist government has offered “high rewards” to people who shoot down waives, now plaguing the Communist - dominated country. Thieves Stopped PHILADELPHIA (INS) —Three holdup suspects were arrested recently in Philadelphia because they obeyed traffic signals. While leaving the scene of the crime in a car, the driver stopped for red lights, allowing police to catch up with them. Close Coll BRISTOL, Pa. (INS) — New'Portville firemen who started a campaign to smash the doors off all discarded iceboxes as a safety measure didn’t have far to look. There was one in the yard behind the firehouse, discarded recently by the fire fighters themselves.

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