1959 - Polio Vaccine Composed of Live Virus Is Reported to Be Successful

Leading immunologists from many lands who attended the week-long International Scientific Congress on Live Virus Vaccines, held at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., last week, heard dramatic and highly encouraging reports on the first large-scale tests with anti-polio vaccines prepared from attenuated living polio viruses.

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