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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.
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.
- Anda Baicus
- 2012
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...
- Missy Sullivan
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.
In 1962, an oral polio vaccine (OPV) was developed by researcher Albert Sabin, using an attenuated – or weakened – live polio virus. As his vaccine was easier to administer, it greatly facilitated distribution.
Some 1.5 million persons were vaccinated in a mass campaign in 1960–61, which eliminated the disease altogether in that country. Belgium began using the Salk vaccine in 1958 and the Sabin vaccine in 1963; as a result, polio disappeared as an endemic disease in the late 1960s.
The oral polio vaccine (OPV) was first tested and produced in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Czechoslovakia becomes the first country in the world to eliminate polio. Read more about the history of Polio vaccination.
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