Show State Medical Reminds Parents Of f Polio Shot Needs Officials of the Utah State Medical Association this week reminded parents that Salk vaccine vaccine vaccine vac vac- cine has proved highly effective in protecting both children and adults against polio but that I parents must see sec to it that po polio polio po- po po-I po lio shots are arc administered I According to reports from the United States Public Health Service Service Service Ser Ser- vice only one half the nations nation's children under five years of age have had polio shots even though Salk vaccine provides ef effective effective effective ef- ef protection against crippling crippling crip crip- pling infantile paralysis Children cannot be protected protect protect- ed unless their parents show sufficient concern over their welfare to make certain they have their Immunization shots the Utah State Medical Association Association Association Asso Asso- points out Vaccine is available in sufficient supply and physicians throughout the state stand realy to give t the Ii e shots it was noted The USMA has made plain that no child need lack protection protection protection tion due to financial inability of parents to p ply pay y for vaccine In Salt Lake City the County Medical Medical Medical Med Med- ical Association has cooperated in a series of clinics at which vaccinations were given to children children children chil chil- dren under ten in areas where the cost of polio shots might otherwise be a hardship and similar arrangements prevail Inmany in inmany inmany many many other districts Medical 1 men point out that some parents mistakenly feel polio is no longer a health menace menace menace men men- ace due to the widely reported success of the Salk vaccine They add that while incidence has been greatly reduced the disease continues to threaten any youngster who has not been vaccinated against it o 0 |