Word: phs
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...hesitated for 25 years to make the plunge, but last week they finally did. The U.S. Public Health Service announced that it had decided to make a big-scale test of BCG,* the anti-tuberculosis vaccine. Somewhere in the South, in a community with a high T.B. deathrate, PHS will soon have under way the first U.S. experiment in community-wide immunization against T.B. by vaccinating 100,000 people...
...experiment, PHS will choose not only a community with a high T.B. deathrate, but one with few T.B. hospital beds. Among the chief guinea pigs: nurses and other hospital workers constantly exposed to T.B. infection. The vaccine, barred from commercial manufacture, will be produced in PHS's own laboratory...