ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 20, 1996 TAG: 9609200069
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
CDC urges return to polio injections
WASHINGTON - The federal government Thursday announced a historic shift in its recommended schedule for childhood polio vaccines.
The new recommendation - to use an injectable version of the vaccine for the first two doses of the four-dose regimen - was implemented because the commonly used oral vaccine occasionally causes paralytic polio in children it is meant to protect.
Use of the injectable version for the first two doses is expected to lower incidence of vaccine-induced polio 50 percent to 75 percent, said David Satcher, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that recommended the change.
- The Washington Post
Hackers make free with CIA Web page
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Swedish hackers, angry over a court case in their country, broke into the CIA's World Wide Web page and changed the wording to ``Central Stupidity Agency.''
They also added a slam against the Swedish prosecutor in the case, Bo Skarinder, urging him to ``Stop Lying.'' The Swedish case involves a group of hackers ages 16 to 20 who were caught in 1991. Their trial began this week.
The altered CIA page also was linked to various sex, music and Scandinavian hacker sites, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported.
CIA spokesman Rick Oborn said there was never any danger to national security. ``This is a separate system not connected to any CIA internal files. There is no way you can enter CIA internal files through this system.'' The offending page was removed after about 12 hours, NTB reported.
- Associated Press
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