American Citizens as Guinea Pigs
Part 1
by Kelleigh Nelson
It was probably about 1951 or 52 when I was just a little girl and was sitting at the kitchen table in our apartment in Chicago. My mom was reading the Chicago Tribune newspaper and often would read aloud to me as a child. I distinctly remember her reading an article to me that stated the federal government had sprayed a flu virus over the Rogers Park area of Chicago to see how the contamination worked on the........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh109.htm
American Citizens as Guinea Pigs
Part 2
by Kelleigh Nelson
Most Americans do not remember what a horror the polio epidemic was upon America. In the early 50s, over 33,000 Americans fell crippled or died slow, terrible deaths from polio each year. It was a virus spread casually that infected the lining of the intestines, then the blood stream, and finally the nervous system where it destroyed the victim’s brain stem. The search for a polio vaccine became a national scientific effort supported by very powerful political forces. As a virus, it did not respond to antibiotics as bacteria do, so a vaccine was needed to stop the crippling and killing......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh110.htm
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by Kelleigh Nelson
It was probably about 1951 or 52 when I was just a little girl and was sitting at the kitchen table in our apartment in Chicago. My mom was reading the Chicago Tribune newspaper and often would read aloud to me as a child. I distinctly remember her reading an article to me that stated the federal government had sprayed a flu virus over the Rogers Park area of Chicago to see how the contamination worked on the........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh109.htm
American Citizens as Guinea Pigs
Part 2
by Kelleigh Nelson
Most Americans do not remember what a horror the polio epidemic was upon America. In the early 50s, over 33,000 Americans fell crippled or died slow, terrible deaths from polio each year. It was a virus spread casually that infected the lining of the intestines, then the blood stream, and finally the nervous system where it destroyed the victim’s brain stem. The search for a polio vaccine became a national scientific effort supported by very powerful political forces. As a virus, it did not respond to antibiotics as bacteria do, so a vaccine was needed to stop the crippling and killing......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh110.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=flu+virus
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Nelson
rudkla - 21. Jul, 09:11
