Infantile Paralysis Vaccine

At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Sidney David Kramer of Brooklyn, where infantile paralysis often prevails, stated that he had developed a vaccine which prevented infantile paralysis in three-fourths of the monkeys on which he had experimented. In all probability, he thought, his vaccine would be just as efficacious in children.

The Kramer anti-poliomyelitis vaccine is a mixture of immune serum (from a person who has had an attack of the disease) and active infantile paralysis virus. The serum renders the virus harmless, and the product creates immunity in vaccinated monkeys. It is useless in treating an attack of poliomyelitis or curing the consequent paralysis, but seems likely to prove an authentic preventive.

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