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Many other states have had difficulty us ing up their allotments of Salk vaccine, and last week 17 states (twelve of them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the more vigorous step - it deter mined not to turn the vaccine back, but to put it to work. When the blitz began, only about a third of an estimated 1,935,000 Tarheels eligible for the vaccine (all under 20, and pregnant women) had re ceived it. Guilford County, which...
...agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby Tim. "How old are you?" the nurse asked. "Nineteen." The nurse took up another needle...
...thirds of all the victims were under six years old-meaning that they had not been among the 110,000 schoolchildren who got free Salk shots in classroom clinics before vacations began. Of the five dead, three were under six, one was 28, one 34. Twenty-two of the victims had been vaccinated against polio, but most had had only one shot of vaccine, instead of the ideal three spread over seven months...
...famed University of Pittsburgh laboratories where the Salk polio vaccine was invented, Dr. Gisela Ruckle, a German émigrée, reported that she had grown 25 generations of the measles virus in test tubes. The virus had hitherto defied domestication; now researchers may be able to make an effective measles vaccine...
...JONAS E. SALK...