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Wonder Why My Parents Didn’t Give Me Vaccines?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / January 12, 2020 / cartoons, Jonas Salk, March of Dimes, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, polio vaccines, regret, Tom Little

A Little cartoon about polio vaccines 64 years ago helped get kids vaccinated and protected.

Why is the March of Dimes called the March of Dimes?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / August 10, 2019 / advocacy, Eddie Cantor, Franklin Roosevelt, March of Dimes, polio, polio vaccines, Vaccine Preventable Diseases

The fundraising efforts of the March of Dimes helped fund the initial research into preventing and treating polio.

Milestones Towards the Eradication of Polio

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / 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.

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