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Show Polio Vcccine Now Being Stockpiled Kathryn Classick, one of the highly trained technicians at Cutter Laboratories, Lab-oratories, performs one of the many safety tests on the new polio vaccine. BERKELEY, CALIF. The Salk poliomyelitis vaccine is now a reality re-ality after years of research and at Cutter Laboratories, here, full scale production on the ruby red vaccine is going ahead. Part of the production produc-tion of the vaccine at Cutter will be allocated to the National Foundation Foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis and the rest will be stockpiled for use of the nation's doctors. Safety of the polio vaccine appears ap-pears to be assured and itis expected ex-pected that the results of the recent immunization, trials will be an- -nounced early next year by the Francis Committee of the University Univer-sity of Michigan. Because about three to four months are needed to produce the hilled virus vaccine, Cutter Laboratories Labora-tories is starting now to stockpile brge quantities of the polio vaccine. vac-cine. If the vaccine lives up to the c :pectations, it will be available to t'.'.o medical profession early n;xt ..ring. |