The 70th anniversary celebration of the Salk polio vaccine took place Friday afternoon in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom in ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year.

Salk believed a killed-virus vaccine was the best approach to combat polio. Most other virologists disagreed with him. They favored a weakened live-virus vaccine that was predicted to be more ...

Blakeslee, the agency’s science writer, outlined how researchers at Johns Hopkins and Yale universities discovered that polio “strikes first in our blood instead of our nerves” and that “there is a ...

There are two types of polio vaccine in use. One is the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), and the other the live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The IPV is made by “killing ...

Polio being a highly infectious disease, can cause paralysis and even death. While it has no cure, vaccination is the most effective way to manage it. The drive comes after new polio cases were ...

There are two types of polio vaccine in use. One is the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), and the other the live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The IPV is made by “killing” large ...

For Meseret Gelaw, a mother in Furustale village of Jimma town in Oromia region, ensuring that her 8-month-old son receives every necessary vaccine is a matter of life and health. “I want my child to ...

The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV ... initially in environmental samples and later in paralytic polio cases, ...

This sentiment applies to an untold number of Americans but also to Dr. Jonas Salk, the virologist whose injectable polio vaccine Mr. Greene also mentions. I contracted polio in August 1955 after ...

On April 26, 1954, second graders at Franklin Sherman Elementary Fairfax County, VA kicked off the nationwide trials of the Jonas Salk's polio vaccine. Called the biggest medical experiment in U.S ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged traditional rulers in Bauchi State to put in more efforts to ensure members of their communities comply and allow their children to be vaccinated ...