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' AfA IT , United Press Full Laased Wir Tribune United Fresi Full Leased Wir Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1955 Pages 1-6 More Frequent Polio Shots May Be Needed by Child in Clean Home By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York U.R) A renowned authority on polio believes the child in a clean home in a clean neighborhood may have to be vaccinated more often than the child of a dirty home in a dirty neighborhood if the Salk anti polio vaccine is to give him the ame lasting immunity to the disease. This "maybe" opinion of Dr. Joseph L. Melnick, professor of epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, was based .upon 1. a scientific study of the .residents of a clean and of a dirty neighborhood in Charles ton, S. C, and 2. and the fact that no one can now be positive as to how lasting is the immunity to polio which is bestowed by the Salk vaccine. Impressive Evidence In Charleston, Dr. Melnick and his collaborator, Dr. Mary Walton of the U.S. Public Health Service, found impressive evi dence that a person who has polio in a form so mild he doesn't know he's ill, does not acquire enough immunity to protect him against a second bout. On the other hand, a series of such un detected minor bouts with polio viruses ended up by giving him an immunity no less lasting than a person who had been seriously ill and had recovered. The question is: Does the Salk vaccine, which is made of "dead" viruses and thus cannot produce illness at all, stimulate the anti body chemistry of the body more lastingly than a very live virus encountered under natural con ditions which failed to produce signs of illness? All this, the doctors said, was "an interpretation of the data" but one which "may have a bear ing on the requirements for suc cess of a vaccination program." Basically their data from Charleston demonstrated all over again that polio viruses get around among human beings living in soiled surroundings much more freely than among those living in clean homes with good plumbing and proper at tention to garbage disposal. Exposed More Frequently The children of the dirty Charleston neighborhood ac quired natural immunity to polio much earlier than those of the clean neighborhood, sim ply because they had been ex posed much more frequently to polio viruses. The data of the scientific study showed that the younger the child, the more often did its blood reveal the presence of anti-bodies of polio which were not enough to give immunity. But the older the child of the dirty neighborhood, the more likely was the presence of fully immunizing anti-bodies. Would Strengthen Immunity Thus, if the Salk vaccine's im munity was no more or only a little more lasting than the pass ing immunity bestowed by one "silent" infection, minor en counters with live viruses in natural circumstances would serve to renew and strengthen Tone of Phonograph Said Improved by Ceramic Cartridge New York ;U.P.) A ceramic cartridge for phonographs is tailored to make conventional record players sound something like high fidelity units. The cartridge is the small gadget at the end of the tone arm that holds the needle. You can install the "pickup" cartridge yourself. It's avaiable for players ranging from one to three speeds. The cartridges are said to provide wide frequency range, low distortion and good tracing. College Urged for High School Grads that immunity. And the children of dirty homes would be more likely to encounter live viruses than those of clean homes and so their body chemistry would get more lasting results from the vaccine. 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