Polio Disappearing In Canada
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) OTTAWA. Dread of paralytic polio may soon be a thing of the past in Canada. The number of cases reported in 1962 totalled 86, compared with 185 in 1961 and 909 in 1960 Canadian health authorities believe that the two factors mainly responsible were the original Salk vaccine programme, followed by the Sabin oral vaccine programme. About 4,000,000 Canadians were immunised by the Sabin vaccine
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 3
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