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Do You Remember Sabin Sundays?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / March 3, 2019 March 3, 2019 / Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk, OPV, polio myths, polio pioneers, polio survivor, polio vaccines, Sabin Sundays, The Cutter Incident

You may have heard of the Polio Pioneers, the kids who got Jonas Salk‘s original inactivated polio vaccine in 1954. They were part of a large clinical trial, getting either the polio shot or a saline placebo, and helped prove that the vaccine was safe and effective. Do You Remember Sabin Sundays? Of course, that …

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Why Do We Still Vaccinate If Polio Has Been Eliminated?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / January 10, 2019 February 28, 2019 / AFM, Albert Sabin, DDT, eradicated diseases, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Jonas Salk, non-polio AFP, polio, polio eradication, polio myths, polio outbreaks, polio survivor, polio vaccines, post-polio syndrome, smallpox, transverse myelitis, vaccine myths, VAPP

We can’t stop vaccinating against polio until it has been eradicated.

Milestones Towards the Eradication of Polio

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / November 14, 2018 January 19, 2019 / AFM, AFP, Albert Sabin, Amish, Bob Sears, cVDPV, David Salamone, DDT, eradicated diseases, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, iron lung, John Enders, John Salamone, Jonas Salk, March of Dimes, polio, polio myths, polio outbreaks, polio survivor, polio vaccines, post-polio syndrome, provocation polio, Robin Cavendish, VAPP

Because you likely don’t remember much about polio and may have never known anyone who had polio, it is an easy target for propaganda by anti-vaccine folks.

What is Provocation Polio?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / October 22, 2018 October 22, 2018 / acute flaccid myelitis, AFM, Albert Sabin, causation, Jonas Salk, paralysis, provocation polio, VAPP

Provocation polio was really a thing, but that doesn’t mean it works for other viruses.

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