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Post Polio

The Fate of Poliomyelitis after Salk’s US Campaign

Brooke Bandon, Marie Videau and Mattie DeCella


History of Polio after Salk

1957: Start of the first oral poliovirus vaccination tests in the Democratic Republic of Congo

1961: Dr. Albert Sabin develops an oral vaccination, it rapidly becomes the vaccine of choice against polio.… Read more