of Mental Retardation
British Researchers Develop Vaccine Against One Cause
er confirmation before it can fection "appear to suffer no

He and Dr. Elek have de-
veloped a vaccine against a
common disease that is con-
sidered an important cause
of mental retardation through-
out the world. Cytomegalo
virus is probably the most
common viral condition
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS among the scores of causes
of mental retardation.
During a year's traveling
fellowship in 1956-57, Dr.
Stern visited Detroit for a
scientific meeting. It was
during that year that he first
started to work with the cyto-
megalo virus in Boston.
Although the vaccine de-
veloped by Drs. Stein and
Elek is still in the experi-
mental stage, promising re-
sults have been obtained in
medical student volunteers.
The researchers hope that the
British government's Medi-
cal Research Council, which

LONDON—One of the big- league, Dr. Stephen D. Elek.
gest problems in medicine— Dr. Stern, who was born to
mental retardation—may one an Orthodox Jewish family in
day be reduced, thanks to the Glasgow, has been consultant
work of a British virologist, virologist to St. George's
Dr. Harold Stern, and his col- Hospital, London, since 1962.

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be licensed for routine use
around the world.
In the 17 years since Amer-
ican scientists discovered the
virus, doctors have learned
that cytomegalo virus pro-
duces its greatest damage
during pregnancy when moth-
ers pass the virus to the fetus
in the womb. About one baby
in 200 is born with congenital
cytomegalo virus infection.
Some show a minor illness at
birth. But the great majority
of those with such virus in-

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DR. HAROLD STERN

funded a major portion of the
research at St. George's Hos-
pital, would begin the larger
trial of vaccine within a
year.
The vaccine will need wid-

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obvious ill effect and make
normal physical and mental
progress," said Dr. Stern.
A proportion of these ba-
bies, however, will become
mentally retarded, and the
effects of viral damage on
the brain will become appar-
ent only years later.
After the medical students
at St. George's took the vac-
cine, the majority had no
symptoms, although a few
had minor muscle aches at
the site of injection.

GREENSBORO, N. C. — nominational committee of
"Aggressive Christian prose- Greensboro clergymen.
lytizing" among public school
Rabbi Arnold Task of Tem-
children here has caused ple Emanuel here, said that
stress on Jewish students and the Key 73 movement was
much concern to their par- not the cause of the problem
ents.
as some rabbis have charged.
The problem, placed before There was evidence of the in-
a meeting of principals and creased proselytizing last
administrators of the Greens- year before the advent of the
boro school system by the movement, he said.
National Conference of Chris-
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be "producing a degree of I nection is incidental." he
emotional distress among said. "The problems have
children of the Jewish faith, gone on for a long time. Ap-
and shows some evidence of parently, Key 73 has given
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