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Show I Boy Stricken With Polio While Visiting In S.L.C. An item in the Wendesday evening eve-ning Deseret News reported that a nine-year old Roosevelt boy who had received' Salk anti-polio vaccine vac-cine has been hospitalized in Salt Lake City with spinal type poliomyelitis. polio-myelitis. He was in "good" condition condi-tion Wednesday. Name of the boy was not given and no authentic report has been received, except that he is the son of an oil worker. The child was stricken 2 weeks ago while visiting in Salt Lake Gjty with relatives, but symptoms apparently were mild and polio was not suspected until several days ago when muscle weakness developed. The boy received one shot of vaccine in the spring of 1955 and the second on May 20 of this year. |