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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 
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