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Record 061 · Health · 1955
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Salk 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.”
1954 field trial of 1.8 million children. Announcement bells rang in department stores. Later OPV (Sabin) finished global control.
- Killed-virus injectable polio vaccine
- Mass field-trial productization
Safe, effective, and potent.
