A May 1953 Popular Science article attempted to take stock of the polio epidemic and brought hopes of a vaccine. By Bill Gourgey Published May 11, 2022 7:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

The number of poliomyelitis cases reported in the U.S. as a whole was running about 8% ahead of last year: 2,543 cases since the disease year began April 1, as against 2,361. Local health officers ...

One of the newest and most hopeful weapons in the fight against polio is a blood fraction called gamma globulin. Doctors have known for several years that it is a rich storehouse of disease-fighting ...

Sioux City residents were among the first in the country to participate in an important medical study during the summer of 1952 to investigate the effects of gamma globulin to thwart or end the ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

We don’t discuss polio very often these days. While it took more than a decade, a vaccine was developed in the late 1950s. Short for poliomyelitis, polio is a highly infectious disease that is spread ...