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I Manatee Aiming To Complete Type I Polio Dose TomorrowErase Crippler, Leaders UrgingPolio — one day a disease of the past — if everyone backs the Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine program.ing day of the mass immunization program, the station was at the Prospect School Tomorrow there will be 19 stations throughout the county to handle what is hoped to be a crowd of 25,000 citizens.(Bradenton Call Photo By Bill Stewart)Sunday Manatee County residents who haven’t already taken the vaccine will be given another chance.Dr. Angus Graham, head of the committee in charge of the present program, said if everyone who is offered the chance takes the oral vaccine, polio will one day be relegated to the past just as smallpox has been.Two Changes In StationsSunday the same feeding stations used on the first feeding day will remain the same with two exceptions. The mobile unit will not return to Duette. Tallavast’s general store will be the site of the feeding station at Prospect School the first day.One new station has ben added. It will be at Kiwanis Hall at Bradenton Trailer Park from 12 noon until 3 p.m.According to Dr. Graham most of the doctors in the county plan to carry on with the oral immunization rather than the injection-type following the mass immunization. He pointed out that giving the oral vaccine individually in a private practice would be expensive, and stressed that all citizens who haven’t already taken the type I should turn out Sunday. Donation of 50 cents is requested, however no one will be turned away because of inability to pay.Total Is GrowingNearly 35,000 residents have already taken the vaccine, including those who turned out on the first feeding day, shut-ins who have called the health department to have the serum delivered, patients at Manatee Memorial Hospital and at local nursing and rest homes, individuals who have come to the health department throughout the week and inmates at the county and city jails.All age groups are urged to participate in the feeding,| but Dr. Graham has stressed a great number of the teenage population of toe county should turn out, because this is the age group most susceptible to the disease.Senior citizens, although not as susceptible, may be carriers. The Sabin vaccine will produce an intestinal barrier against the polio virus lessening the chances of one being a “carrier.”Goal of the Manatee County Medical Society is to immunize as close to 90 per cent of the population as possible.Feeding date for type n of the vaccine is set for Jan. 13, 1963. Type in date has not yet been announced.Bonita McDowell, whose parents run the Tallavast grocery store, secures the sign designating the store as one of the feeding stations to be used Sunday in the administering of type I Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine to those who have not already taken it Last Sunday, the first feed- ...................... *— r-x-—Ti7 i* r______r___I___n*______ IF/
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Bradenton Morning Call
Bradenton, Florida, US
Sat, Dec 08, 1962
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