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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, October 19, 1995                   TAG: 9510190068
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

CHANGE ADVISED FOR POLIO SHOTS

The government Wednesday recommended changing the way children have been vaccinated against polio for more than three decades, urging that the familiar sugar cubes and liquid be combined with two injections.

Under new federal guidelines, children would be injected in their first year with two shots of inactivated polio vaccine. - a stronger version of the vaccine using killed polio virus that was invented by Dr. Jonas Salk.

The shots would be followed by two doses of oral vaccine in the second year. Most children now get three doses of oral vaccine by age 2.

The recommendations aim to reduce the risk of children getting the paralyzing disease from the vaccine itself.

- Associated Press 


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