ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Saturday, June 22, 1996                TAG: 9606240050
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-2  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: CORRECTIONS

FOR THE RECORD

ATLANTA - In a story about a recommended change in the way polio vaccines are administered, The Associated Press erroneously reported Thursday that an injectable form of the vaccine is weaker than the oral vaccine currently given.

The injectable vaccine, which is made from killed polio virus, provides children the same level of immunity against the virus as the oral vaccine, which is made from live virus.

However, only the oral vaccine prevents recipients from harboring and spreading the virus if they come in contact with it after they are vaccinated.

A government advisory panel wants children to begin with two injections and then have the oral vaccine. That schedule is designed to reduce the minuscule risk that the oral vaccine, when administered alone, will give children polio.

A detail describing the doors on the restrooms in the Brambleton Deli was wrong in Friday's Extra. The doors don't close properly.

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