CURE HOPED FOR

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1933, Page 5

CURE HOPED FOR

INFANTILE PARALYSIS DISEASE

VACCINE PROTECTS ANIMALS

(United Press Association—By Electric-

Telegraph—Copyright)

NEW YORK, December 21. The announcement from Long Island College of Medicine, that the inr fan tile paralysis commission, through the director, Dr Kramer, had developed an immunisation vaccine, which proved effective in immunising three out of four of the animals tested, the ratio of immunisation being fully as hight as that of standard vaccines, for instance, diphtheria, created great interest.

Dr Morgan of the. Commonwealth Health Department, who is [touring the United States, said he had not yet had the opportunity of inquiring into the Long Island method. He added, however: “It sounds possible; it sounds quite all right.”

Dr Kramer stated: “We have reason to expept this vaccine which is nontoxic, will be effective on human beings,” but lie warned that much remains to be done before infantile paralysis vaccine is available for general use.

Dr Kramer described the vacine mixture as being the virus of infantile paralysis and convalescent serum obtained from the blood of recovered patients. He said that the virus which causes the disease is not a germ, but is some agent that is too small to be detected by the most powerful microscope, while the convalescent serum is believed to contain immunising or neutralising chemicals produced in the patient’s body "that render the disease virus harmless.