Polio

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1918 In 1918, Noguchi traveled extensively in Central America and South America working with the International Health Board to conduct research to develop a vaccine for yellow fever, and to research Oroya fever, poliomyelitis and trachoma.
1950s Polio Vaccine was Contaminated
1964-1965 Baltimore continued his work on virus replication using poliovirus and pursued training in enzymology with Jerard Hurwitz at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1964/1965.
1974-Today Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)
1988-2011 Such attacks could not come at a worse time. The global polio campaign has entered what should be its final stages. The number of cases has dropped from 350,000 in 1988 to 650 in 2011.
1988-Today Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)
2019 ClinMed - Biological Warfare and Snake Venom for Poliomyelitis and ALS: The Little Known Entwined History of Failed Ethics and a Reasonable Therapeutic Hypothesis
2021 Zenger Beta - US Warns Of Polio-Like Illness Outbreak In Four Months
Albert Sabin
CIA Vaccination Cover in Pakistan
Cold War tensions and the polio vaccine
Dr. Roderick Murray
During this work, David Baltimore made a key discovery that polio produced its viral proteins as a single large polyprotein that was subsequently processed into individual functional peptides.
Frederick Chapman Robbins
John Franklin Enders
Maurice Brodie
Polio eradication
Polio in Pakistan
Polio links
Polio vaccines
Poliovirus
Rockefeller and polio links
Thomas Huckle Weller