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Polio: Canada's Way: Government Held the Reins
Gayn, Mark | June 4, 1955 issue

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Back in the very dark year of 1953, there were 8,900 cases of infantile paralysis and 481 fatalities in Canada. Last year, the graph dipped sharply to 2,400 cases and 105 deaths, but it was still bad enough to induce the government to sponsor field tests of the Salk vaccine in the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. Biologicals in Canada have traditionally been a provincial responsibility, and some of Canada's provinces are just as jealous of their prerogatives as the most ornery American states. If the field tests of the Salk vaccine in Canada and the U.S. proved successful, there could be no delay in the launching of a mass inoculation.

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POLIOMYELITIS vaccine; VACCINATION; BIOLOGICALS; POLIOMYELITIS; INJECTIONS; CANADA
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