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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, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, VAPP

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

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, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, VAPP

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

The Myth That Polio Only Went Away Because They Changed the Way It Was Diagnosed

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / July 25, 2018 August 7, 2018 / acute flaccid paralysis, AFP, Albert Sabin, cherry picking, conspiracy theories, eradicated diseases, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, graphs, Greenberg Gambit, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Jonas Salk, non-polio AFP, polio, polio eradication, polio myths, polio survivor, polio vaccines, transverse myelitis, vaccine myths, vaccines work

Could the control and elimination of polio have been faked by simply changing the criteria we use to diagnosis kids with paralytic polio?

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