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Show I CAMPUS LABOBATOEI I IS VACCINE FACTORY I More than one hundred thousand I doses of Rosdiow vaccine, used to fl vaccinate against mtluenza-pneumo- I nia, have been made in the State I Public Health laboratory at the Uni- J fl versity of Utah, under the direction i fl of Dr. L L. Daniels, '.ate bacteriolo- I 1 gist. The vaccine is e.miposed of sixty I fl per cent ppeuinonl. germs, ten per I cent staphvliiiuus aurius py nnus 1 germs, twent.. iwi cent streptoiocus 1 germs ami ten per cent Pfeifer's bac- illus of influenza gem. All the germs are obUined frni a t lal case-t of in-I in-I fiuenza-pneum o '. This i thought to 1 increase the potency of the vaccine. I The germ- are (.nwn in special 8 media in a laboratory kept at body 1 temperature Then they are wished in solution of salt water and shaken L I by an electn shaking device to ob- F Bf t,, an evei Siispenninn. Tho organ- "'Bm isms are inU) test tLibes T and then killed, either by heat or by I the addition of chctiu. als. They are diluted until eC ubic centimeter 8 contains five billion hacteria and then I tested for sterility If found to be B sterile, a preservative is added and the vaccine bottled for shipment. 1 The first dote is one-half cubic 1 centimeter, the sti md is one cubic I centimeter and the third is one and a half cubic centimeter There is a period of seven days between doses. Rosenow is an aim pneumonia vaccine. vac-cine. Its value in preventing influenza influ-enza is said to be undetermined. |