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  1. While it affected children around the world for millennia, the first known clinical description of polio, by British doctor Michael Underwood, was not until 1789, and it was formally recognized as a condition in 1840 by German physician Jakob Heine.

  2. About 16,000 cases of polio (paralytic poliomyelitis) occurred each year in the U.S. in the 20th century compared with none in 2020. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13, 1955, one day after it’s licensed in the U.S.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jonas_SalkJonas Salk - Wikipedia

    An attenuated live oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin, coming into commercial use in 1961. Less than 25 years after the release of Salk's vaccine, domestic transmission of polio had been eliminated in the United States.

  4. May 9, 2024 · Polio vaccine, preparation of poliovirus given to prevent polio, an infectious disease of the nervous system. The first polio vaccine, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) or Salk vaccine, was developed in the early 1950s. Learn more about the history and effectiveness of polio vaccine.

  5. Feb 9, 2010 · On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the...

  6. Aug 8, 2012 · The first nationwide polio vaccination campaign was in Cuba, in 1962. During a meeting in 1956 between Sabin and Chumakov, Sabin provided his experimental results and his strains of polio vaccine to Chumakov, who began to produce it for use in his country.

  7. Apr 12, 2023 · Polio was once the most dreaded disease in the U.S. Discover the two distinct vaccines — developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin — that stopped its spread.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PolioPolio - Wikipedia

    Subsequently, Albert Sabin developed a polio vaccine which can be administered orally (oral polio vaccine - OPV), comprising a live, attenuated virus. It was produced by the repeated passage of the virus through nonhuman cells at subphysiological temperatures.

  9. Oct 15, 2012 · At the University of Pittsburgh, Jonas Salk launched what was then the largest human trial in history, injecting nearly 2 million American kids with a potential vaccine.

  10. In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned.

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