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The Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine could be offered at just a 25 cent donation and was recommended to persons of all ages, even those that had previously received the Salk vaccine.

Despite the low-cost of the new Sabin Oral Vaccine, less than one-fourth of the expected number of people turned out for the first day of distribution. Only one million out of the projected 6 million Californians showed up to clinics like those held…

Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine registration forms such as this were printed in issues of Cal State LA’s newspaper, The College Times in an effort to encourage students to get vaccinated against polio.

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From October to March more than 120 students reported at the campus Health Center for herpes simplex virus Type 2, or genital herpes.

Cal State LA began to offer medical care for free to students.

By the 1980s there was a growing awareness of the risk of sexually transmitted diseases such as the herpes virus. College campuses such as Cal State LA sought to shed light on the risks by spreading awareness.

The emergence and rapid spread of AIDS in the 1980s led to fears about procedures such as blood donation. Very little was known about the cause of the disease, which later was discovered to be a virus called HIV.

Cal State LA continued to serve as a center for public health in the 1980s by offering flu vaccines much in the same way it had offered polio vaccines in the 1960s.

As AIDS became more widely known, the Red Cross sought to reassure the public of the safety of blood donation.