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Detailed plans now are being worked put for the possible administration of polio vaccine to 331 Rappahannock County chil- » •, dren^ who will be eligible to re- - _ ceive it if it is licensed, Dr. Thomas L. Allman, County Health Officer, declared today. \ [ : As was announced today, by State health officials^ all first and second grade phpils in public, pri-* ... vate and parochial schools in the State and all children who were part of the test groups in the 1954 vaccine field trial but did not receive vaccine at that time, are included in the planned program, he explain^. It also will be available - * to others through physicians at the same time.
But parents were. warned by " Dr. Allman not to jump to the conclusion that the current planning indicated the vaccine already had been proved effective.
“The ■ vaccine which will be furnished by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is die same vaccine that was given to 440,000 children last spring" he _ said. “We do not know yet whether it-really prevents paralytic polio. Until ApriL when we will learn the results of the evaluation study now beingfoonducted at tic polio. Until April, when we cannot know if the vaccine is effective. - -t •*
"J8ut we cannot wait until then . for planning for; the protection^' as many of our children as possible. Vaccinating'large numbers: of children is a big and important job, entailing many procedural tasks that can’t be performed over night. ' I . * .
“If the license is granted in , April, rye must be ready to start vaccinating at once, so diat, if possible, we can finish, .before our schools close and the polio season starts. We want to give the vaccine early so that many children can be protected before polio appears in their communities.
“This program Would not be another, test but the first use of ■ a newly-established preventive » measure.”
Under the direction of the State Health Department, Dr.* Allman . has been conferring with school (Sm POLIO VACCjlNE pt(. •>
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