“From what we have seen here, there are plenty of children who have managed to get the vaccine. From the reports I am getting nationwide, the programme has taken off well and we want to reassure the nation that the vaccines are available so they should take their children to get vaccinat...
(HealthDay)—An infection that can disable and kill stalks the land, but a brand-new vaccine offers hope that almost everyone, kids included, can evade it. After scientific testing, a nationwide rollout of the vaccine begins.
Yet from that fear and urgency came one of the most extraordinary scientific experiments in American history—the Salk poliovaccinefield trial of 1954. Desperate parents offered up more than 1.8 million children to serve as what amounted to test subjects, including 600,000 kids who were injected ...
2/6/2016 - Panic over the potential side-effects caused by the polio vaccine continue to mount in various parts of the world, with the latest drama unfolding in India, after authorities arrested an 18-year-old man accused of spreading false rumors regarding the polio vaccine. Parvez Ahmad ...
the vaccine should provide effective protection against the pathogen from which it is derived without significant danger of actually causing disease or severe side effects; (ii) the protection provided by the vaccine should be effective over a relatively long period of time; (iii) the vaccine must...
The future came quickly. Within seven months, Vermont – where George H. Perkins had given the formula for lead arsenate in his annual report – was hit hard. “The first major polio outbreak to be recognized in the United States did not occur until 1894,” writes ...
I scrolled through the Southwest Virginia Enterprise on microfilm starting early in the plague year. It made sense to me that Johnny Seccafico would have been the first to get polio. I imagined his father traveling from small town to small town in Virginia, mingling with crowds and kids and...