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...rubeola). The elusive virus now isolated cannot be generally used as a readymade vaccine because of the danger that children might transmit the infection to pregnant women. So scientists are trying to make it safe, by killing the virus (as in Salk polio shots) or weakening it (as in Sabin oral vaccine...
...weeks the campaign slogan "SOS -Sabin Oral Sunday" had been hammering the city. Bus drivers wore SOS badges. Newspapers carried front-page exhortations along with editorials and cartoons. SOS signs were plastered on buses and billboards. On the telephone, recorded voices repeated the SOS slogan along with the weather and time...
...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...
...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...
...more than 90% of Clevelanders have received the most important types of virus in their Sabin vaccine-types I and III. But when they get their third portion of Sabin vaccine (type II) in late July, they will have swallowed more than 4,500,000 doses at the modest cost of $750,000. The academy expects that this will be entirely covered by donations (recommended: 25? per dose) from those who were treated. So successful is the campaign that by next winter other cities across the country may well follow Cleveland's style and send out their own well...