Poliomyelitis Web Sites

General information

• Children's Hospital Boston
  Looking Back: Polio Vaccine 50th Anniversary
  
• Detroit News. Rearview Mirror.
  Zacharian, Pat. "Conquering the Dreaded Crippler, Polio."
  
• Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.
  Hot Topics: Polio Vaccine: 50th Anniversary, 1955-2005.
  
• Rotary International Foundation's PolioPlus effort
  http://www.rotary.org/foundation/polioplus/index.html
  
• San Francisco Chronicle. April 25, 2005.
  Russell, Sabin. Chronicle Medical Writer. "When Polio Vaccine Backfired. Tainted Batches Killed 10 and Paralyzed 164."
  
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  The American Epidemics. What Ever Happened to Polio?
  
• University of Michigan Medical School.
  Center for the History of Medicine. Polio Exhibit.
  
• University of Pennsylvania. History & Sociology of Science. 1998.
  Polio in the American Experience
  
• World Health Organization
  Poliomyelitis
  
• Yale Medicine. Autumn 2005.
  Oshinsky, David M. "Breaking the Back of Polio."
  

Jonas Salk

• Academy of Achievement
  Jonas Salk, M.D. Interview. May 16, 1991.
  
• The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
  http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Dl/salk/salkdocuments.html
  
• News-Medical.Net
  Now revealed that Salk polio vaccine was a team effort. The cure for polio came as a result of the collaboration between Thomas Francis Jr. and Jonas Salk.
  
• The New York Times on the web Learning Network. June 24, 1995.
  Schmeck, Harold M. Jr. "Dr Jonas Salk, Whose Vaccine Turned Tide on Polio, Dies at 80."
  
• PBS online. A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries. Jonas Salk. 1998.
  
• PBS online. A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries. Jonas Salk. 1998.
  
• Pittsburg Post-Gazette. April 3, 2005.
  Spice, Byron. "The Salk Vaccine: 50 Years Later." Part I - "Developing a Medical Milestone: the Salk Polio Vaccine."
  
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 4, 2005.
  Spice, Byron. "The Salk Vaccine: 50 Years Later." Part II - "Tireless Polio Research Effort Bears Fruit and Indignation."
  
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  Jonas Salk
  
• University of Michigan. Advancing Global Public Health.
  Jonas Salk, M.D. 50th Anniversary of the Polio Vaccine
  
• University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
  The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Development of the Salk Polio Vaccine
  

Albert Sabin

• Arlington National Cemetery Website
  Albert Bruce Sabin: Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army Medical Pioneer 
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine
  
• Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives
  University of Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center
  
• Ohio Academy of Science. Heartland Science.
  Oral Polio Vaccine Namesake - Albert Sabin.
  

Post-Polio Syndrome

• Children's Hospital Boston
  Looking Back: Polio Vaccine 50th Anniversary
  
• MedlinePlus
  Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome
  
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  Post-Polio Syndrome Fact Sheet