Preparations for "Round Two" in the drive to "Kb" polio in the New Orleans area move ahead Tuesday with the arrival Of a shipment of a second type of the Sabin oral polio vaccine at New Orleans International Airport.
Civil Defense officials from Orleans and Jefferson parishes will be present at 11:55 a. m., for the arrival of the vaccine, which will be made available to the public on Sunday. The frozen vaccine will be escorted to a central storage point where it will be kept pending distribution to neighborhood immunization centers on Sunday,
KO-Polio officials have issued an appeal to every person in the Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard Parishes to take the vaccine on Sunday.
The delegation of civil defense officials assisting in carrying out the KO Polio program will be headed by Harry E. Evans, Jefferson CD director, and Col. Charles W. Erdmann, CD director in New Orleans.
Dr. Dennis H. Groome Jr., and Dr. Ellen MacKenzie, leaders of the Kb Polio program in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, respectively^ have urged persons of all ages — from the smallest infants to the elderly— to obtain "Round Two" of the vaccine at 179 neighborhood immunization centers which will distribute the vaccine on Sunday from noon to 6 p. m.
There are three different types of the vaccine, they say, and each provides immunity against a different type of polio.
"Even if a person did not take the 'Round One' of the Sabin vaccines during March, he should still take the second of the vaccines on Sunday, and he should take the third type, when it is made available in June," said Dr. Groome.
The Orleans Parish Medical Society, which organized and is sponsoring the KO Polio drive in cooperation with the Jefferson Parish Medical Society and St. Bernard Parish physicians, has requested that persons receiving the vaccine make contributions of twenty-five cents to help defray costs of the immunization program.
However, the medical society has emphasized that every person who desires the vaccine* will receive it "with no questions asked about contributions,'' should a person not be able to contribute.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Anna Amann, chairman of volunteer
nurses for the KO Polio program, appealed for volunteer assistance from additional nurses for "Round Two" of the program Sunday.
Mrs. Amann said that registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, both white and colored, are needed to help staff immunization centers.
She requested that nurses who wish to volunteer their services call 529-4311, ext. 674, between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m.
