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 ...

IT WAS A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN HISTORY THAT SAVED SO MANY LIVES. WHEN DR. JONAS SALK ESTABLISH THE POLIO VACCINE RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH. AND TODAY, ALL OF HIS LIFE’S WORK AND MATERIALS BACK HOME ...

Jonas Salk was home with his wife, but she could tell his mind was elsewhere—back in his lab, where work was proceeding apace on what would become the first vaccine against polio. “Why Jonas ...

As Dr. Darrell Salk waited in line to receive his ... classmates for a different vaccine -- it was the polio vaccine, which his father, Dr. Jonas Salk, developed. The younger Salk said he rarely ...

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 ...

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 ...

The net result of mistrust is that vaccination rates have begun to fall dramatically in some areas of the U.S., resulting in ...

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 ...

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 ...