Word: pediatricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Year Worst. Nor is this cautious attitude limited to oldtimers. Dr. Samuel L. Katz, 42, Duke University's brilliant pediatrician who worked with Harvard's great virologist John F. Enders, is chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee that is drawing up vaccination schedules for children. In its next revision, Katz insists, there will be "no recommendation banning mass vaccination programs for smallpox." That means no widespread change in the current practice of vaccinating infants between six and nine months of age. However, vaccination is three times as likely to cause severe illness in the first...