They represented mixtures of 5 consecutive lots of monovalent vaccine of each poliovirus type prepared from the Sabin vaccine strains by Lederle Laboratories in compliance with vaccine-licensing ...

In January, 1955, Albert B. Sabin inoculated 30 volunteers at Ohio's Chillicothe Reformatory, with a weakened strain of live polio virus. Just three months later, Jonas E. Salk announced that he ...

There are two polio vaccines widely used today. One is Salk's killed vaccine; the other is a live-attenuated vaccine first developed by Albert Sabin. In addition to polio and typhus, killed ...

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent ...

The history, impact, and resurgence of measles due to vaccine hesitancy, highlighting the need for public health education.

It is an injectable, inactivated polio vaccine that is still used in some countries today. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ...

The impact was dramatic: In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894. By 1959, 90 other countries used Salk's vaccine. Another researcher, Albert Sabin, didn't think ...

By the end of the 1960 polio season, Dr. Cox is confident, his vaccine can be licensed. Meanwhile, the National Foundation (TIME, Jan. 18) grantees are testing the Sabin vaccine. The struggle for ...

Salk developed the first, injectable polio vaccine; Sabin developed an oral vaccine that would eventually supplant it. Years later, as they were entering the winter of their lives, I sought both ...

Two forms of the polio vaccine are available: injected inactivated polio vaccine (IPV or Salk vaccine), introduced in 1955 and oral live-attenuated polio vaccine (OPV or Sabin vaccine), introduced ...