Deadline Lengthened; Vaccine Still Available

Students, faculty members, and employees of the University can still register for Sabin polio vaccine treatment, although the application form distributed to students set a January 4 deadline for registration.

"The deadline was set up only so we could estimate the amount of vaccine we would need," said Dr. Curtis Prout, director of the immunization program. However, anyone under 21 must still receive parental permission before taking the vaccine.

Last year, Canada and New York State banned the Sabin vaccine after cases of polio were reported among those who had been treated with the "Type III" vaccine, which immunizes against one of the three strains of the disease. But a Presidential commission recently cleared all three types of vaccine for national use.

Only eleven cases of polio have been reported among the 31,000,000 people who have taken the Sabin vaccine.