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...University Health Services will offer Sabin oral polio vaccinations to all University personnel sometime after Christmas vacation instead of in October as originally planned, Dr. Shoelm Postel, assistant director of the UHS, said Monday...
...vaccine is not being offered yet because there is evidence that some viruses which are common in the fall season can interfere with its immunisation process. Dr. Postel emphasized that the delay in the vaccination program is not related to the recent controversy about the possibility that the Sabin vaccine can cause paralytic polio...
...nationwide drive to get Americans of all ages vaccinated against polio was snarled last week in a furious controversy over the safety of the Sabin oral vaccine, Type III. Among 1962's relatively few cases of paralytic poliomyelitis (fewer than 450 to date, with the total not expected to exceed 700 for the year) was a handful believed to have been caused by the Sabin vaccine itself. An expert advisory committee called in by the U.S. Public Health Service recommended continuing all Sabin vaccination programs for children, and also ruled Types I and II safe for adults, but left...
...weakened strain of Type III poliovirus developed by the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin had always been accused by some virologists of occasionally reverting to a dangerous form after multiplying in human vaccinees. and the PHS had delayed its approval for many months until last March. Since then, an estimated 13 million Americans have taken it, many of them in mass "SOS" (Sabin Oral Sunday) campaigns such as the one held in Cleveland last June (TIME, July 6). Up to 5,000,000 of those who took Type III were adults...
...risk of vaccination would not be justified. Among preschool and school-age children, the risk of getting polio from Type III virus in its natural state is much greater, and the risk of getting it from the vaccine is almost nonexistent. Delay in Type III Sabin vaccinations, until the experts finish their lab studies, is therefore justified for adults, but not for children...