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Monday. November T, 1955 MEDFORD (ORECJOK) MAIL TRIBUNE THRZS' Salk Vaccine Said Designed To Prevent Polio Paralysis instead of Infection series of five articles on what parents should know abojit the Salk polio vac rine. Under Dr. Van Riper'i direction the National Foundation sponsored the research development of the vaccine and he is In chance of the Founda tion's program for v.ccinatinr children in the first and second grades of school.) By HART E. VAN RIPER. M.D. Medical Director National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis A gtory published the other day with the best of intentions by a great newspaper which prides itself on its accuracy be gan like this: POLIO FOLLOWS SHOT The seventh polio case in the city of a child who had received the Salk anti-polio vaccine was reported yester day to the Board of Health. Only toward the end of the story is the statement added: . . subsequently his case was diagnosed as non - paralytic polio." Now, factually this story was correct. But we are a headline- conditioned people. Did you not. in fact, from this headline and ppening sentence, feel a pang of doubt about the vaccine? And yet the truth may well have been exactly the opposite to the im pression you got that is, it is quite possible that the child would have had paralytic polio had it not been for his Salk vaccination. Prevents Paralysis The Salk vaccine is designed to prevent not polio infection but polio paralysis. In the fu ture there will be many cases among vaccinated children of illness that turns out to be non' paralytic polio precisely because the Salk vaccina has prevented paralysis. No wonder, then, that at this juncture the "beginning of the end" of polio as a major scourge there has been public confusion. It is true that a few cases of paralytic polio have been re ported among children who have received the vaccine. In some of these the vaccine would not have helped, simply because it doesn't protect everybody. In others the virus entered the sys tem before the vaccination or before the vaccine had time to take effect. After the first shot an interval of seven to 10 days is necessary for the stimulation of antibody production; and even if administered in time, the one shot may not be enough to stave off paralytic polio, since it func tions mainly as a sensitizer, mak ing for more positive results from the second and booster shots. Whether a vaccine is safe de pends on the formula and then j on whether it is made strictly according to that formula. Safety Established Safety of the Salk formula has been established beyond ques tion. After exhaustive labora tory tests. Dr. Salk gave the vac cine to 9,000 children in Pitts burgh. In 1954, following ap proval by the Vaccine Advisory committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, it was given to 440,000 chil dren in many parts of the coun try. This year, some 6,500,000 American children have received at least one shot under the pro gram financed by the National Foundation. . In the manufacture of the Salk vaccine, exacting testing re quirements fixed by the U. S. Public Health Service are fol lowed from culture of the virus to final packaging of the vaccine. Finished vaccine is not released for use until it has been ap proved by this federal agency. With the demonstration of mass use and with the knowledge of strictest supervision in manu facture, you may rest assured that the vaccine is safe. But this does not mean that your child should be given the shots at any time and under all cir cumstances. There are excep tions. Not Given During Illness For example, the polio vac cine should not be given during the course of an acute illness of any sort. Nor should it be given to persons with certain symp toms, even though the illness may be only minor. Among these "stop" signals are fever, sore t Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Holly wood's No. 1 party-giver these davs is a man who tosses soirees n2SZ'm''l for bulls lions' ,'t&9 1 eoats and as- y yjjijevfr sorted movie. town celebri ties. This new so c i a 1 leader is Carroll Right e r a w e 1 1 known astrolo ger. Since 1940 Aline Mosby R i g h t e r has convinced a large section of Hol lywood that the planets affect human ,life on earth, and his de voted customers include Mar lene Dietrich, Bob Cummings, Hildegarde Neff, Van Johnson and others. Zodiac Plays Role Recently the astrologer decid ed to become the Elsa Maxwell of the zodiac set by giving a birthday party each month for movie colonists. Each gathering features a different sign of the zodiac with a symbolic animal as guest of honor. Last July the "Leo" party had a real lion on hand. Goats min gled with the guests at the "Cap ricorn" party and a black bull quietly chewed the lawn during the "Taurus" affair. The two footed guests included Rose mary Clooney, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, David Niven and Peter Lawford. "I give these parties because I love company," explained Right er. "I'm Aquarius gregarious people, you know." So far the neighbors have not objected to the strange parties at Righter's home. But some times the other type of wild life gets out of hand. Once Johnnie Ray teased a crocodile that was observing the party from behind a small wire fence in the living room. The reptile leaped over the fence and began chasing the guests. At the Virgo party the guest of honor was a chicken, connec tion unexplained. It laid an egg in the hand of Hugh O'Brien. 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