and eager parents started lining up their kids to receive a dose of a new polio vaccine, a much-anticipated weapon against this devastating and feared disease. This week marks 70 years since the first ...

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As the federal government gears up for another anti-polio campaign from April 21, fresh data reveals a troubling surge in vaccine refusal cases - 44,000 nationwide, of which a staggering 34,000 ...

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.

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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 ...