Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public that Americans can learn from today
- Written by Carl Kurlander, Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Jonas Salk, left, developed the first effective polio vaccine.Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesIn 1955, after a field trial involving 1.8 million Americans, the world’s first successful polio vaccine was declared “safe, effective, and potent.”
It was arguably the most significant biomedical advance of the past century. Despite...