Jonas Salk 100th Birthday: Polio vaccine developer's extraordinary achievement celebrated with a Doodle
10 years, 5 months ago

Jonas Salk 100th Birthday: Polio vaccine developer's extraordinary achievement celebrated with a Doodle

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google has celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr Jonas Salk, the American scientists who developed the first successful polio vaccine, with a Doodle on its homepage. The heart-warming illustration depicts two children holding up a sign reading “Thank you, Dr Salk!” – a tribute to the virologist’s work against a disease whose main victims were children. The virologist’s research soon caught the attention of Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, whose organisation funded Salk's efforts to develop a vaccine against the devastating disease. In 1954, national testing began on one million children, ages six to nine, who became known as the Polio Pioneers: half received the vaccine, and half received a placebo.

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History Today: When Dr Jonas Salk announced the cure for polio
5 days, 23 hours ago

History Today: When Dr Jonas Salk announced the cure for polio

Firstpost  

On March 26, 1953, Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. Today, he is remembered as a great scientist and humanitarian On March 26, Dr Jonas Salk successfully tested a vaccine for polio on himself and his family. It was on this day in 1953 that Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully …

History Today: How the world came to embrace the first polio vaccine
1 month, 1 week ago

History Today: How the world came to embrace the first polio vaccine

Firstpost  

On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also significant because the Gutenberg Bible was first published in Germany, paving the way for the ‘Gutenberg Revolution’ that made books and knowledge accessible to everyone On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh received the …

Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies
3 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies

LA Times  

To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. I knew my children and countless others would never face what I went through, or face death or an iron lung. I can’t describe how angry I was to find out that an advisor to Robert Kennedy Jr. is …

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

LA Times  

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. “I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.” Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2022, Robert …

'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators
3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators

Raw Story  

Conservative CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton implored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday to extricate himself from the efforts of a key adviser to get the FDA to revoke the decades-old polio vaccine approval. Appearing with host John Berman, Singleton was asked about a report in the New York Times that RFK Jr's advisor, Aaron Siri, "is waging war against vaccines of …

RFK Jr.’s lawyer petitions the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine
3 months, 2 weeks ago

RFK Jr.’s lawyer petitions the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine

Salon  

Aaron Siri, the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — petitioned the federal government on Friday to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. “I love Aaron Siri,” Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Informed Consent Action Network …

The two vaccines that brought us to the brink of eradicating polio | Explained
8 months, 4 weeks ago

The two vaccines that brought us to the brink of eradicating polio | Explained

The Hindu  

In 1948, microbiologists John F. Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins were trying to find a method to grow different viruses in cell cultures. The poliovirus has only one natural host — humans — and many of the early strains of the virus were isolated from humans and wouldn’t infect non-human primates. Striking at ground zero Soon after Salk made …

Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. You should be terrified
1 year ago

Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. You should be terrified

LA Times  

Iron lungs are lined up in an emergency polio ward in Boston during the 1955 polio outbreak. — David Oshinsky, “Polio: An American Story” That includes 10 cases in Florida, where public health comes under the jurisdiction of Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a leading quack and established anti-vaccine activist. At a campaign rally in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 2, he …

Jonas Salk, the man who cured polio, "would be shocked" by anti-vaxxers, experts say
1 year, 5 months ago

Jonas Salk, the man who cured polio, "would be shocked" by anti-vaxxers, experts say

Salon  

Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the nervous system and can trigger total paralysis in a matter of hours. Salk's work "was supported by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as the March of Dimes," Jacobs told Salon by email. Salk "would be shocked" by the rise of the contemporary anti-vaccine movement, said Dr. Paul …

Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains the history of this dreaded disease
2 years, 6 months ago

Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains the history of this dreaded disease

The Hindu  

Fears of polio gripped the US in the mid-20th century. Since then, collective fear of the virus has been mostly lost to history – many people alive today are lucky enough not to know someone who has experienced polio. So when news broke in July 2022 that an unvaccinated adult man in New York had contracted polio – the first …

Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back
3 years, 9 months ago

Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back

ABC  

One morning in April 2018, six-year-old Gafo woke up with aching legs. "This case was notified as the first polio case since 1992 in Malaysia," Dr Miraj says. Despite the small risk of vaccine-derived outbreaks, the oral polio vaccine is still being used in several countries because it has other major advantages, epidemiologist Meru Sheel says. "One of the reasons …

From Polio To The COVID Vaccine, Dr. Peter Salk Sees Great Progress
4 years, 3 months ago

From Polio To The COVID Vaccine, Dr. Peter Salk Sees Great Progress

NPR  

From Polio To The COVID Vaccine, Dr. Peter Salk Sees Great Progress Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP Editor's Note: As this year winds down, we're looking back at some people we spoke to earlier in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was in its early stages. When I spoke to Dr. Peter Salk back in May, he told me …

World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About Polio
4 years, 5 months ago

World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About Polio

News 18  

World Polio Day is observed every year on 24 October to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, the American virologist who helped create the world’s first safe and effective polio vaccine. Salk’s vaccine was invented in 1955 but it was with the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International and others …

Vaccinations, polio and COVID-19: a personal reflection
4 years, 5 months ago

Vaccinations, polio and COVID-19: a personal reflection

Salon  

He was the cutest little boy. Dr. Jonas Salk and the live polio vaccine My brother had the bad luck of being in the very last group of children to be stricken prior to the mass distribution of the Salk vaccine. A national parental concern My brother was born in that "cruelest month" of April — on April 26, 1952, …

The Race For A Polio Vaccine Differed From The Quest To Prevent Coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

The Race For A Polio Vaccine Differed From The Quest To Prevent Coronavirus

NPR  

The Race For A Polio Vaccine Differed From The Quest To Prevent Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP COVID-19 isn't the first health crisis the United States has faced that experts say a vaccine will be needed to resolve: In the 1950s, people lived in fear their children might be stricken with infantile paralysis, better known as polio …

Trump vs Roosevelt: How the US once led a fight against a deadly virus but is losing it today
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump vs Roosevelt: How the US once led a fight against a deadly virus but is losing it today

The Independent  

The two epidemics that have most terrified the US in the last 100 years are Covid-19 today and the devastating polio epidemic that ravaged the country for 40 years between the New York polio epidemic of 1916 and the successful use of the Salk vaccine after 1955. open image in gallery Franklin Roosevelt exercising in the walking court at Warm …

What a sugar cube can teach us as we develop a coronavirus vaccine
4 years, 11 months ago

What a sugar cube can teach us as we develop a coronavirus vaccine

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Michael S. Kinch is associate vice chancellor, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and director of the Centers for Research Innovation in Biotechnology & Drug Discovery at Washington University in St. Louis. As detailed in my book “Between Hope and Fear, a History of Vaccines and Human Immunity,” the sugar cube was not originally intended to be the …

The Trump administration’s ludicrous approach to coronavirus vaccine (opinion)
5 years ago

The Trump administration’s ludicrous approach to coronavirus vaccine (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Jeffrey Sachs Courtesy Jeffrey Sachs Here is Azar’s astounding statement regarding the development of a coronavirus vaccine: “Frankly, this has such global attention right now and the private market players, major pharmaceutical players as you’ve heard, are engaged in this, that we …

Salk’s drop of health
6 years, 9 months ago

Salk’s drop of health

The Hindu  

Even as recent as six decades ago, poliomyelitis was a dreaded, infectious and potentially fatal disease that paralysed its victims. Jonas Salk is the American medical researcher and virologist who discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine in 1952. Progress By June 1954, 1.8 million children and adults, called polio pioneers, volunteered to be injected with Salk’s vaccine in …

From the Archives: Polio immunization
6 years, 9 months ago

From the Archives: Polio immunization

LA Times  

Feb. 25, 1957: Manuel Reyes, 7, peeks apprehensively between fingers at a needle just before getting his polio shot at Castelar Street School as two little girls await their turn. In 1957, the city of Los Angeles Health Department opened a drive to immunize 300,000 children against polio. This photo by staff photographer Garry Watson became lead Page One art …

Polio then and now: the story of a crippling disease on the verge of worldwide eradication
8 years, 1 month ago

Polio then and now: the story of a crippling disease on the verge of worldwide eradication

The Independent  

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"I wish this had never happened to me": Jonas Salk cured polio, only to be shunned by science
9 years, 9 months ago

"I wish this had never happened to me": Jonas Salk cured polio, only to be shunned by science

Salon  

Jonas Salk was suffering under fame’s heavy load.“His life did change immediately with the April announcement,” Darrell later said, “but it just took him time to realize it.” The interruptions and obligations were overt, the altered relationships subtle. At a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, when he mentioned the idea of a vaccine against a number of …

Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Makes A Comeback
9 years, 11 months ago

Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Makes A Comeback

NPR  

Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Makes A Comeback Enlarge this image toggle caption K.M. For many people, it seems like a relic — isn't the oral version, not the injectable, the vaccine that's supposed to end polio within a few years? "With the introduction of injectable polio vaccine, we are one step closer to seeing this disease ended for good," said …

Jonas Salk's 100th birthday: Google Doodle thanks scientist for polio vaccine
10 years, 5 months ago

Jonas Salk's 100th birthday: Google Doodle thanks scientist for polio vaccine

Firstpost  

With a new doodle, Google on Tuesday celebrated Jonas Stalk’s 100th birthday. He was hailed all over the world as the “miracle worker.” With a new doodle, Google on Tuesday celebrated American scientist Jonas Salk’s 100th birthday. He was hailed all over the world as the “miracle worker.” The average number of polio cases in the US was more than …

On Jonas Salk’s 100th birthday, a celebration of his polio vaccine
10 years, 5 months ago

On Jonas Salk’s 100th birthday, a celebration of his polio vaccine

LA Times  

Few scientific achievements have had as swift and dramatic effect — and been surrounded by as much myth — as the development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, who would have turned 100 on Tuesday. Murrow asked, guilelessly, “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?” Salk responded with a line that would become world famous: “Well, the people, I …

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