Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the nervous system and can trigger total paralysis in a matter of hours. It mainly targets children under age 5, and at one time disabled and ...
Jonas Salk was home with his wife, but she could tell his mind was elsewhere—back in his lab, where work was proceeding apace on what would become the first vaccine against polio. “Why Jonas,” said ...
On April 12, 2005, I found myself at the Cathedral of Learning with students of mine from the University of Pittsburgh interviewing those who had worked with Dr. Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine that ...
IT WAS A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN HISTORY THAT SAVED SO MANY LIVES. WHEN DR. JONAS SALK ESTABLISH THE POLIO VACCINE RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH. AND TODAY, ALL OF HIS LIFE’S WORK AND MATERIALS BACK HOME WHERE ...
The Jonas Salk Legacy exhibit also includes two large centrifuges, an incubator and an “iron lung” — the kind of tank respirator that was commonly used to help people with severe cases of polio ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health opened a special exhibit on the 70th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine. Jonas Salk developed the historic vaccine at Pitt, ...
Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...
Poliomyelitis has been around since ancient times. There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. This ...
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The world risks forgetting one of humanity's greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded "iron lung" ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...
As Dr. Darrell Salk waited in line to receive his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, he realized he had been in a similar situation about 60 years ago. As Dr. Darrell Salk waited in line to receive ...
The polio vaccine was created by Dr. Jonas Salk at a University of Pittsburgh laboratory about 70 years ago, and Pitt is honoring that legacy by opening a public exhibit of Salk’s personal equipment ...
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