19-Nov-09
Until Dr. Jonas Salk introduced the Salk vaccine to fight polio, it was a dreaded disease, one which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered from. The 1952 outbreak was the worst in the history of the United States with nearly ...
17-Nov-09
President Roosevelt created a partnership of volunteers and researchers and within 17 years, the Salk vaccine (named after Jonas Salk, the doctor who developed it) had been developed and polio was on the run. ...
09-Nov-09
Four years after the development of the Salk vaccine, Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health discovered the contamination of the vaccine with SV40. she noticed something strange while looking through her microscope. ...
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, ...
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 ...
18-Nov-09
My friend noted that in the early 50's when polio was killing or crippling too many, the Salk vaccine was administered to thousands of children in schools. My friend observed that in those days the public health services enjoyed ...