Hungry Horse news., 1955-04-15
April u, 1855

This week contained day that goes down in
history as the time when mankind publicly
nouhced that the dread scourge of polio effec-
lively be curbed through vaccination. The date of
April IL was picked the tenth anniversary of
the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
who had polio at the age of 80.
The threat of this often Gripping disease has
been real terror to parents across the land. The
menace reached into every section of the nation.
There was spiraling increased from 10000
in 1914 to near $4,000 in 1852.
Many families bought polio insurance. There
were mammoth fund drives for the National Foun-
dalton for Infantile Paralysis. At the time the
outlook was mostly to provide for the extensive
care if an individual afflicted Research was
in progress but preventative seemed so distant
Last year the horizon brighter. DR.. Jonas
Salk at the University of Pittsburgh developed a
vaccine using monkey kidney tissue, and nation
wide tests were made using 1,829,916 children OF
this group 900 were actually inoculated with
the Salk vaccine, II of these developed paralytic
polio and not from the vaccine of course. OF the
900 surveyed who did not receive the vaccine,
AS were paralyzed by polio.
An extensive study was made of the Salk vac
cinations Tuesday morning at the University OF
Michigan, DR.. Thomas Francis Jr. made public the
113-page report the Salk program. The vaccine
was termed up to 80 per cent effective especially as
preventative for Gripping types of polio.
Here in the Flathead next week should see the
first of the series of three Salk NEGOTIATIONS.
Supply of the vaccine is limited, and plan is to
offer NEGOTIATIONS to all $4,000 first and second
graders in Montana whose parents give permission
The National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis and
drug manufacturers are taking care of the cost.
U. S. News and World Report tells that 24.e
per cent of all polio among children under
S. then 273 per cent of all cases in the to
old group followed by Is per cent for those 10 to IA
and 8.4 per cent for the is to 10 year-olds.
This vaccine will be available for others thar
the first and second graders in the same manner II
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cost from SIP to SIS for the three shot series Con
tact your physician.
The U. S. News and World Report conclusion
are interesting and precise:
"Does the effect of the vaccine last lifetime
"Only time can tell. Tests will be made t.
watch that aspect of the vaccines action Booster
shots may be necessary.
"Does the vaccine cause reactions, such al
rashes nausea?
"No bad side effects have shown up on
significant scale.
"W better vaccines be developed?
"That is possible. But the Salk vaccine rep
resents real step forward"
The vaccine is described by u. S. News as
reddish liquid injected usually into the upper arm
1t contains the three types of polio virus, treatet
with formaldehyde solution to make them harm
less. To manufacture the vaccine, the three types
polio virus are grown in small bits of monkey kid
ney tissue, then killed with formaldehyde Actuall
it is complex process, though it sounds simple.
Upon injection into the blood stream, the vac
cine stimulates the persons body into producin
substances called antibodes. These antibodies Ten
der live poliomyelitis virus harmless if they late
invade the blood stream The vaccine does not Civ
person mild of polio and is only proven
tative, and not cure to be given persons who com
down with the disease.
There time that smallpox vaccination
were bitterly opposed, and we expect there may b
opposition to injecting bits of dead monkey tissu
into the blood stream
Let's hope that polio will 60 the way of small
pox that was once so prevalent disease. MI