The Army now has available for all officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, a lipo vaccine containing pneumococcus Types I, II, and III.” The army distributed two million doses of this vaccine in the next weeks. This marked an enormous production triumph. Earlier a prominent British scientist had pronounced it impossible for the British government to produce even forty thousand doses on short notice. But the vaccine still protected only against pneumonias caused by Types I and II pneumococci, and it came too late; by then the disease had already passed through nearly all
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