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...ballpark dropped from a normal 30,000 to 11,000; business at parks and beaches dwindled to a standstill. The city was otherwise occupied. At schools, police stations and fire houses, thousands queued up for the privilege of swallowing sugar cubes impregnated with drops of Sabin oral polio vaccine...
...goal was to give every Clevelander three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine at monthly intervals between May and August. And Cleveland was reaching that goal with more dispatch than the city's sponsoring Academy of Medicine had considered possible...
...take this stuff?" Told that he could take the vaccine without harm, he said: "I mean it's liquor I been drinking." Again he was reassured. One Clevelander asked for vaccine to take to a friend waiting in his car-already paralyzed by one type of polio. An attendant took the vaccine...
...Step Further. Even before Cleveland began to gulp down the live-virus oral Sabin vaccine, killed-virus Salk vaccine had compiled an enviable record in suppressing polio. In the last seven years, Salk vaccine has cut Cleveland's polio to a total of 417 cases, compared with 3,338 in the previous seven years. But, says Dr. Howard H. Hopwood of the Academy of Medicine, the Sabin method has important advantages over Salk in mass vaccination campaigns. The live virus can be given by mouth, rather than by needle. It not only builds up polio-fighting antibodies...
...Jonas Salk will discuss new developments in the field of polio vaccines and his new institute for advanced biological studies...