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Show CAMPAIGN TO 'K.O. POLIO' GETS SUPPORT A statewide campaign to "K. O. Polio' 'In Utah is winning win-ning enthusiastic support from civic and governmental organizations, organ-izations, Dr. Alan P. MacFar-lane, MacFar-lane, chairman, announced Tuesday. The campaign, sponsored by tha Utah State Medical Association Associ-ation in cooperation with its component medical societies, will provide the new Sabin oral polio vaccine for every person in the state. (Clinics will be held Sunday, Oct. 14 in all areas of the tstate.) Dr. MacFarlane pointed out that the oral vaccine Is extremely ex-tremely easy to administer. "Since no injection is involved, in-volved, the new Sabin polio vaccine need only be swallowed," swal-lowed," he said. "Infants will be fed the vaccine with droppers. drop-pers. Older persons and adults eat a cube of sugar on which the vaccine is dropped." To offset the cost of the vaccine, vac-cine, persons will be charged 25 cents per dose. Persons who have taken the Salk vaccine should still take - the oral vaccine because the oral vaccine produces immunity immuni-ty against the polio virus. "This means that persons taking tak-ing the oral vaccine will protect pro-tect their neighbors as well as themselves," Dr. MacFarlane said. "For this reason, we entourage en-tourage young and old alike to take the vaccine." S. Bruce Hanks, tUah representative repre-sentative for the National Foundation, urged Utahns to take the vaccine Oct. 14. "March of Dimes funds to- taling $1.2 million helped finance fi-nance Dr. Albert Sabin's research," re-search," Mr. Hanks said. "It is gratifying to see that the people of Utah will be able to benefit from this research." |