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When the fear of polio gripped the world, Jonas Salk’s determination led to a liberating medical breakthrough
In 1952, around 58,000 American children contracted polio. More than 21,000 were paralyzed and 3,000 died. The disease would ...
"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, ...
Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...
The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s announcement that Florida would become the first state to end vaccine mandates reminded us of a moment captured on film 70 years ago when ...
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