¶ Paralytic polio can be readily confirmed and even the puzzling cases of nonparalytic polio can be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy by new tissue-culture techniques, the A.M.A. Journal reported. Dr. Mary Godenne and John T. Riordan worked out the method at Yale University. It can be adopted by any big hospital laboratory with facilities for handling viruses, should go a long way to remove uncertainties in diagnosing, reporting and treating polio.
¶ Poliomyelitis viruses for vaccine production can be grown in human afterbirth, which may replace monkey kidneys as...
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