Hopeful Note In Fight Against Polio
WELLINGTON; Sept. 20. A note of hope in the search for a pOliomyelitis preventive vaccine, was sounded hy Dr. J. O. Mercer, pathologigt tp the Wellington * Public Hpspital, when he gave Wellington Hospital Board members today tho; impressions of his recent tcjur of Canada and thg TJnited States, 0r. Mercer said he spent. some tiine at ipstitutions in .the tJnited States where much work was beiqg eamed out on poliomyelitis researeh. There. was a general belief that Vfithjn a ' period of years, a vacpine would "be produced which wpuld 'be effective against polionjyelitis. If the vacqine did not actually prevent the disease, it would at least mitigate the niore drastic effects of it.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 September 1949, Page 5
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119Hopeful Note In Fight Against Polio Chronicle (Levin), 21 September 1949, Page 5
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