Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans. A ...

The Jonas Salk Legacy exhibit also includes two large centrifuges, an incubator and an “iron lung” — the kind of tank respirator that was commonly used to help people with severe cases of polio ...

A May 1953 Popular Science article attempted to take stock of the polio epidemic and brought hopes of a vaccine. By Bill Gourgey Published May 11, 2022 7:00 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

In the summer of 1948, a polio outbreak in San Diego cancelled large gatherings, closed playgrounds, pools and camps, and delayed the opening of public schools in the region. Nationwide there were ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly announced a very ambitious goal: Polio was to be vanquished by the year 2000. It was a reach, sure, but feasible. Although highly infectious, polioviruses affect ...

With the onset of cooler weather, 1952’s record-breaking polio epidemic was on the wane all across the country. Nevertheless, scattered here & there were hundreds of new cases that looked like ...

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1955 (UP) -- The drug industry urged the national polio conference here today to recommend creation of an impartial committee to supervise the distribution of all Salk vaccine.It ...

George B. Molner of 71 Ridgeway Ave., won't be around this weekend to contribute to the March of Dives Blue Crutch solicitation. He'll be at Springfield's Wesson Memorial Hospital convalescing after ...

Good news does not always flow freely in India. Too many children still go hungry. Violence against women endures. Inflation is soaring, and gay sex was just criminalized, again. But today India got a ...