File 001 · Category Openers
Record 061 · Health · 1955
55.61.HSalk Polio Vaccine
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis / multiple labs
“The shot that emptied isolation wards and made April 12, 1955 a national holiday of relief.”
Safe, effective, and potent.
1954 field trial of 1.8 million children. Announcement bells rang in department stores. Later OPV (Sabin) finished global control.
Filed notes
- Killed-virus injectable polio vaccine
- Mass field-trial productization
SIC
2836
Biological Products, Except Diagnostic Substances
NAICS
325414
Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing
