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  1. To End Polio? Britain Makes New Vaccine

    Date released
    26 Jan 1956
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2599
    NoS ID
    046350
    Story no
    10 / 11

    Famous laboratory tries out new vaccine which may banish infantile paralysis.

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  2. The Vital Vaccine

    Date released
    3 Jun 1957
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    57/45
    NoS ID
    107687
    Story no
    6 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    How British laboratories are coping with the huge demand for the new polio vaccine which is defeating one of the most dreaded diseases of the century.

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  3. Rinderpest Vaccine

    Date released
    May 1968
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    56
    NoS ID
    327305
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: The Research Centre of the East Afican Veterinary Organisation at Muguga, Kenya, which is producing an improved vaccine against rinderpest.

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  4. Hull - Polio City

    Date released
    23 Oct 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1690
    NoS ID
    024323
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hull - Polio City. DESCRIPTION: Almost over night, the people of Hull found themselves facing one of the worst polio outbreaks ever known in Britain. But for a great step forward in...

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  5. British Polio Vaccine Safe and Ready

    Date released
    10 May 1956
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2629
    NoS ID
    046581
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Laboratories mass produce polio preventive. Clinics treat first children in "queue".

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  6. Polio to Be Conquered? Vaccine Gives Millions Hope

    Date released
    21 Apr 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2519
    NoS ID
    045735
    Story no
    8 / 9

    Behind scenes story of greatest medical discovery of the age.

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  7. Germany

    Date released
    18 Feb 1946
    Series name
    World Pictorial News
    Issue no
    250
    NoS ID
    156499
    Story no
    4 / 5

    Hamburg. The Minister of Health takes strong measures against an outbreak of typhus. Dwellings are disinfected and vaccine is produced in quantity for mass injections at inoculation centres.

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  8. Asthma

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    87
    NoS ID
    351221
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: He lurks in damp places, he hides under the bed, and he eats human skin. He’s the house dust mite and he causes asthma. Stew him and his own juice provides a vaccine to ease the wheeze.

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  9. Rinderpest in Gambia

    Date released
    Feb 1970
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    75
    NoS ID
    327325
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: The inoculation of cattle against rinderpest using a vaccine developed by a British doctor.

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  10. Anti-Flu Vaccine

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    38
    NoS ID
    325363
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: After years of trial and error and with the help of a fertile hen’s egg, scientists at Britain’s Common Cold Research Unit have been able to reduce a serious common cold to just an...

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