Salk’s vaccine rollout got off to a rough start in 1955, when California’s Cutter Laboratories botched production and created a product that actually gave 220,000 people polio, left 164 severely ...
As long as there have been vaccines, there has been vaccine terror, going back to the early 18th Century, when Boston faced a smallpox pandemic. Onesimus, an enslaved African owned by Cotton Mather, ...
Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...