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Show Polio Vaccine Administration At a recent meeting of the .Southern Utah Medical Society, composed of your local doctors ot medicine, the administration or the limited supply of Polio vaccine was discussed. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will furnish the vaccine for the first two doses to (be glveii at two to four week In. intervals for all children In the first and second grades. The third dose of vacclnp will have i to be obtained from your family doctor approximately seven months after the second dose iwaa given. The National Found. Ration will offer a booster dose to those children who actually received the vaccine In the 1954 ffleld trials. It Is necessary for the parents of eligible children to return the signed request forms before the youngster can receive the vaccine. The above program will require a large amount of the available vaccine so the South-em Utah Medical Society has' decided to use the remaining , vaccine for those children from three to thirteen years of ago, as over 507o of the clinical Infantile paralysis occurs in this age group. This restriction will be for the remainder of April and the month of V.iy, at which time we hope the supply will be able to cope with the demand. This vaccine has been developed by the ceaseless and tireless efforts of many people and ' should prove another step forward for all mankind. Let us not degrade this most recent achievement by selfish or hysterical attempts to balckmarket the vaccine, for we believe there w!l be an ample supply available In the near future. |