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 Carol Pandak, director of Rotary's Polio Plus program, in an email interview. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ernest K. Bennett/AP Ernest K. Bennett/AP Pandak says the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, have promised funding for low-income countries.

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

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 …

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 …

World Polio Day: Newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide
5 years, 5 months ago

World Polio Day: Newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide

Firstpost  

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on 30 September 2019 and has been republished in light of World Polio Day on 24 October 2019. The Sabin vaccine, which is taken orally, is composed of live but weakened viruses that won’t sicken recipients but will still create lasting immunity against polio. However, through genetic changes, the weakened vaccine virus can …

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 …

Vaccine shortage threatens polio eradication
8 years, 2 months ago

Vaccine shortage threatens polio eradication

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We are projecting now that we won’t have the …

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 …

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 …

New oral polio vaccine may wipe out the disease
14 years, 5 months ago

New oral polio vaccine may wipe out the disease

LA Times  

A new oral polio vaccine is making headlines today — and small wonder. The bivalent oral polio vaccine, known as bOPV, immunizes children in high-risk countries for two key strains of the polio virus in one shot, according to findings published in Lancet on Tuesday. World Health Organization scientist Roland Sutter hailed the vaccine that could “get us to the …

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