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...officials decided to wait until November before trying to assay the effectiveness of polio vaccination in 1956, Oregon's board of health got a jump on them last week by reporting its program a huge success. Among 350,000 Oregonians who have received at least one shot of Salk vaccine, there have been only 30 cases of polio in 1955 and 1956 to date, for a rate of less than 9 per 100,000. Among 1,340,000 unvaccinated there have been 480 cases, for a rate four times as high...
...University and Radcliffe students will be eligible for inoculations with Salk Anti-Polio Vaccine under programs announced yesterday by the Harvard University Health Service and the Radcliffe Health Center...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Service, said, "I hope that all students will arrange to get their Salk vaccine early this year. It seems to be effective and remarkably free from reactions in its administration...
...control in another fortnight, as doctors hope it will be, it still makes this the second worst polio year in Chicago's history (the worst: 1952). Only bright spot: not a single case of paralytic polio has cropped up among people who have received the full, three-shot Salk immunization...
Since the ambitious program to inoculate U.S. children with Salk polio vaccine got under way 16 months ago, the U.S. Public Health Service has allocated the vaccine to each state to ensure a fair distribution. Last Week, as his last official act as Surgeon General, Dr. Scheele took note of plentiful supply, ended Government control. Now the vaccine will flow through commercial channels directly to areas where demand is greatest...