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Show by .Jerry Klein oraTt Be si Tiac'flei: ?r"r SO f& Polio With the Salk vaccine, you can be safely protected jf ; against this dread disease; without it, you might be numbered among this year's victims. I'ivf si'mmiks ago, America (united when doc to is reported a new stoini of infantile paialysis cases Two Summers ago, Amema rejoiced with the announcement that a vaccine discovered by Dr Jonas Salk was able to pi event polio with 60 to 90 percent eilectiveness. This Summer, America has huge quantities of the Salk vaccine, and it's available at moderate cost fiee in many instances. Yet thousands of unvaccinated citizens will emit act the dread disease in i the hot Summer months to come Why9 Because of the 109 million Americans under the age of 40 the age group most in need of polio protection -- only a little more than half had even begun their injections by late Spring. And of those who had received any vaccine, only a foui th had the full piotective series of thiee shots If you le one of those who, has delayed until now to be vaccinated, wait no longei The shots can be taken at any time of the year, but it's better to be vaccinated before the polio peril appears in your community. As one North Carolina newspaper put it: The means of licking a very serious disease are at hand. But vaccine does not climb down off a shelf and inject itself! Since the polio vaccine was declared effective two years ago. it has been given at the average rate of a million injections a week. It really proved its value last year when polio cases dropped 59 percent below the previous ntftfiA aveiage with an uncount- able saving in human miseiy. Still, there were an overconfident few who hesitated and lost! -There was, for instance, the old boy in Nashville, Tenn I just figured Id never get polio: it would nevei happen to me. I found out it can hit anyone, and there's no sense taking chances, like 1 did. Now I feel as if I'm in a stiait jacket. In Miami, Fla, a gnl became paialy.ed in both legs Hei five-ye- ar ai d UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED BYmFBRfHERS |