03-Nov-09
In 1954, the vaccine was tested at Arsenal Elementary School and the Watson Home for Children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Salk's vaccine was then used in a test called the Francis Field Trial, led by Thomas Francis; the largest medical ...
28-Oct-09
The invention: Jonas Salk's vaccine was the first that prevented polio,resulting in the virtual eradication of crippling polio epidemics.The people behind the invention: Jonas Edward Salk (1914-1995), an American physician, ...
02-Nov-09
The March of Dimes was organized to collect dimes from people all over the country to fight the disease and, on April 12, 1955, the organization announced Jonas Salk's vaccine, made from dead viruses, had worked in field trials. ...
26-Oct-09
In 1954, the National Federation of Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) sponsored a nationwide vaccination program using Salk's vaccine. It cost about 9 million dollars (back then!!) for 27 million doses of the vaccine. ...
03-Nov-09
After 1955, for example, polio had "disappeared" following the Salk vaccine, only because thereafter clinicians hung new and different names on the same polio-like symptoms. In fact, it appears that it was the Salk vaccine itself that ...
03-Nov-09
He had convinced himself that the fact that Salk's vaccine, the so-called "inactivated polio vaccine," had been chosen for use instead of Sabin's own "live polio vaccine," was irrelevant to his efforts. ...