Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 13. 1962
Oral Vaccine Goes Down Well
Oral Vaccine Goes Down Well
According to the Department of Health, 1,560 vaccines were administered over three day in the Activities Room. The number of persons was probably less than this, because some people took more than one dose. One such, well-known for his general co-operation, boasted that he had drunk five doses—without becoming paralysed.
A majority of students seem to have accepted Sabin Oral Vaccine as a worthwhile preventative of poliomyelitis. The general concensus of opinion after the recent dispensing clinic had departed indicated this.
In 1960, an International Conference on Live Polio Vaccine was held. Three Americans, Dr Albert Sabin, Dr Hilary Koprowski and Dr Herald Cox, had each produced tame polio virus. Sabin Live Vaccine was adopted to replace the Salk dead vaccine. The new oral vaccine is easier to administer and more economical to use.