IP: A medical correctionDo you finally feel old (or a lot older)?

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

From: "Robert J. Woolley" <wooll005@tc.umn.edu>
Reply-To: "Robert J. Woolley" <wooll005@tc.umn.edu>
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: IP: Do you finally feel old (or a lot older)?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:51:52 -0600

In message <4.1.19981112171619.00c0d9c0@mail.earthlink.net>  writes:
> >
> >They never had a Polio shot, and likely, do not know what it is.
> >



I liked the list, except for this item. It's true that, for the most part, 
oral 
polio vaccines replaced injectable ones more than 30 years ago. However, 
within 
the last few years the preferred approach (as endorsed by the Centers for 
Disease Control [I almost wrote just "CDC," but for your audience that might 
bring to mind Control Data Corporation]) is to go back to the injectable 
vaccine
for the first doses, followed later by the oral version. 

This change is recent enough that the above item is still largely true for 
current 18-year-olds. But it might be useful to let your readers know that the 
injectable polio vaccine is making a comeback, so they shouldn't be 
surprised to
see their children being given it.

Regards,

Robert J. Woolley, MD
University of Minnesota











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Bob Woolley
St. Paul, Minnesota


"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?"

                                 -- Jean Kerr

             


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University of Pennsylvania 
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