The curative rate in black or blue pigmented dermopathy was over 98% and in vascular dermopathy was over 80%.

In the group of infants studied, giving the vaccine to a woman during pregnancy was 91.5 percent effective in preventing hospitalization due to influenza.

This year Midland farmers sought permits to set out small amounts of poisoned rice during the blackbirds' spring stop in order to reduce the fall blackbird population.