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Show Factories Cut Production Of Polio Vaccine Two of the nation's largest producers of Salk polio vaccine ; have announced "substantial" cutbacks in production because millions of shots are going to waste in storage. The cutbacks were announced by Ely Lilly & Co., and Pitman-Moore. Pitman-Moore. Officials blamed "public "pub-lic complacency" for the pile-up pile-up of the revolutionary polio-fighter. polio-fighter. The companies slowed down production after the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Paral-ysis and federal officials announced an-nounced that nearly 20 million polio shots are going to waste in storage. There is such a surplus that Eli Lilly sent one million doses of the vaccine, the largest single sin-gle shipment ever made, to Sweden recently for immediate use The government had released re-leased some of the stockpile to foreign countries because so little is benig used here. An official commented, "If a child contracts polio this summer, sum-mer, his parents can't find anyone any-one to blame for it except themselves." |