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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

New York state health officials ramped up efforts to get the public immunized with the polio vaccine that was first invented by the late Dr. Jonas Salk. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7 ...

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 ...

The polio vaccine was created by Dr. Jonas Salk at a University of Pittsburgh laboratory about 70 years ago, and Pitt is honoring that legacy by opening a public exhibit of Salk’s personal ...