State, Count Medical Leaders Map Intensive War on Polio With the complete eradication of polio in Utah as the goal, state and county medical leaders met Tuesday to outline unified plans for a state wide offensive using Salk vaccine. As a result of extensive immunization immu-nization programs in the past, Utah, fortunately, has a high percentage of its population vaccinated. vac-cinated. A wonderfully successful success-ful drive last spring and summer resulted in thousands of Utahns getting their first and second shots. The third and final shots will be administered "free" or at cost clinics around the state this spring. Dr. Ralph Jorgenson, president of the Utah State Medical Association, Asso-ciation, and Dr. Carlisle Thompson, Thomp-son, director of Public Health for Utah Department of Health, in a joint announcment, said, "Our goal is to reach 100 per cent of the population." After the meeting with county health officials from various parts of the state the medical leaders announced that programs to combat polio have been or will be promoted in most counties coun-ties this year. With the recent licensing by the U. S. Public Health Service of Sabin Type Three oral polio vaccine, there are now available two vaccines, Salk and Sabin, for the prevention of polio. Because of the limited supply of the Sabin, or oral vaccine at present, it was recommended that it be used for the protection protec-tion of infants before their first It was also pointed out that planning for a Sabin oral vac-1 birthday. Since the quantity of vaccine required for this group is small, it is expected that immediate im-mediate planning and placing of orders will produce sufficient oral vaccine for this group to complete the series before the onset of the polio season. It was reported that there should be sufficient Salk type vaccine to meet the needs of all others in Utah so that local physicians and health departments depart-ments may plan to complete the Salk immunization programs. Individual physicians are being be-ing urged to have a supply of both the Salk and Sabin vaccine vac-cine on hand for private patient use, if possible. The Utah State Medical Association As-sociation and Utah Department of Health will be in a constant surveillance of any polio cases that might occur and will be prepared to undertake mass immunizations im-munizations in any community where such a program might be deemed necessary. Vaccine will be reserved for any such emergencies. emer-gencies. cine program on a community wide basis be done now to prepare pre-pare for the time when sufficient oral vaccine is available for general gen-eral use. This would include three campaigns, one for each of the Type 1, 2 and 3 vaccines at approximately six week intervals. inter-vals. It was recognized that such community, programs will require re-quire considerable pre planning before they can be undertaken successfully. j i