The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1955 (UP) -- The drug industry urged the national polio conference here today to recommend creation of an impartial committee to supervise the distribution of all Salk ...

Officials say Pakistan has launched a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from ...

I loved the piece in Wednesday’s Union-Tribune about the polio vaccine, and about Jonas Salk’s selflessness. Both my husband and I went to school in the 1960s with older students who’d contracted ...

However, with 100,000 cases per year, polio was a smaller public health threat than tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer, cerebal palsy, or muscular dystrophy.

I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three ...

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1955 (UP) -- The drug industry urged the national polio conference here today to recommend creation of an impartial committee to supervise the distribution of all Salk ...