Russian medical researchers raised the hopes of multiple sclerosis* victims in 1956 with claims that they had 1) found the virus that causes the illness, and 2 made a vaccine that is useful in treating it.
First man to prick the bubble of the Soviet claims was George W. A. Dick of Queen's University, Belfast: he charged that the Russian "vaccine" was actually a preparation perilously akin to live rabies virus; as a treatment, it did no good and was potentially dangerous.
Recently, Dr. Dick visited Moscow. Dr. Antonina K. Shubladze (TiME, Nov. 11),...
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