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Two-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...
During last year's ruckus over the safety and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine, the man responsible for bringing order to the confused and emotional situation was Dr. Leonard Andrew Scheele. As Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, he was doctor to the U.S. people, and it...
¶ The famed Pasteur Institute of Paris put on sale 6,000 series (three shots each) of a modified Salk anti-polio vaccine, found the situation in France diametrically opposite to that in the U.S.: supply far exceeds demand. One reason is that polio is much less common in France...
Women & Children First. The main vaccine problem is supply, which is still far behind demand, although 69 million cc. have been released. Of the expanding monthly output (9,500,000 cc. in May), 60% now goes to public agencies for free clinics and distribution to local doctors. The rest goes...
Eventually, every U.S. child can expect polio immunization, reported Dr. Salk. If properly administered, he said, the vaccine would give close to 100% protection against paralytic polio. In a 1955-56 study of 4,167 children, he found that only 4.8% had sufficient polio antibodies before vaccination. After the first...