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Show Polio Vaccination Age Raise Explained Ray Knell, member of the State Department of Health Advisory Committee, has advised residents of southern Utah that the priority pri-ority age level for receiving polio po-lio vaccinations has been extend, ed to include children up to 14 years of age. Knell pointed out that the pre-vious pre-vious priority age included chil-dren chil-dren under nine years of age. Reason for the extension of the age limit for priority purposes pur-poses regarding the polio vaccine vac-cine was the Increased supply of polio vaccine to private physicians phy-sicians through the National Foundation of Infantile Paraly-sis. Paraly-sis. Knell Is closely associated with the vaccination program in this area as chairman of the Iron County Chapter of the national foundation. He Indicated that doctors are receiving more and more vaccine vac-cine and "this Increase will con-tinue," con-tinue," he stated, "making It available to more and more chll-dren, chll-dren, each month and each day." |