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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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