Polio is a highly infectious ... He added that in Jonas Salk's final years, he worked on efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. Although that was not successful, Salk said that his father was "deeply ...

Nanni became ill just before clinical trial sites came to towns all across the country for a new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh. The polio ...

Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical ... and their three sons, with a polio vaccine made from this killed virus. Everyone who received the test vaccine began producing antibodies to ...

This was the reality for families before 1955, when Jonas Salk's polio vaccine offered a shield against this devastating disease. My own family history is intertwined with the scourge of polio.

On April 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective following nearly a year of field trials undertaken by about 1.8 million American child volunteers ...

But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced ... On July 2, 1952, Salk tried a refined vaccine on children who'd already had polio and recovered.

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues being officially declared “safe, effective and potent,” jump-starting a vaccination effort ...

That's how Thomas Francis Jr. of the University of Michigan School of Public Health announced the arrival of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on April 12, 1955, to a stunned and grateful public.

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 the day in 1955 that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90% effective” against the form of the disease that caused paralysis, 500 medical scientists and 150 reporters jammed ...