Name: What Happened After Polio Vaccine Was Developed
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brought repeated outbreaks of poliomyelitis,

No cure existed, so the only real hope was for a vaccine.

By the end of the 20th century, instances of the disease

Today, the story of how the vaccine was developed, tested,

and distributed can offer numerous insights

at what happened after the polio vaccine was developed.

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working to understand the causes of polio for some time.

And several attempts were made at creating a vaccine.

finally peaked in 1952 when 60,000 children were infected.

3,000 died and thousands more were paralyzed.

the first successful human trials of a vaccine

he and his team had developed by building

In 1953, Salk showed the vaccine to his colleagues.

And in a nationwide address made on the CBS Radio Network

The scientist reported that the amount of antibody introduced

with that which develops after natural infection.

Salk stated that the results gave cause for optimism

but warned that the objective had not yet been accomplished.

demonstrated his confidence in the vaccine

by administering it to himself, his wife, and their children.

After Salk informed the immunization committee

of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, or NFIP,

of his results, calls were made for field trials.

A methodology which involved one observed

control trial and a separate placebo-controlled trial

And groups from the United States, Canada, and Finland

More than a million first, second, and third graders

were given the vaccine for the observed control trial.

Overall, approximately 1.8 million children were involved.

The first to receive the vaccine injection as part of the trial

was a boy named Randall Kerr from McLean, Virginia, who

enthusiastically proclaimed, "I could hardly feel it."

at the University of Pittsburgh, was funded by the NFIP.

Founded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938,

to combat polio, which FDR himself had contracted

when comedian Eddie Cantor told the public

that the March of Dimes will enable all persons, even

the children, to show our president that they

are with him in this battle against this disease.

that took place in 211 countries and 44 states

would formally adopt the name March of Dimes.

of the trials which showed that Salk's vaccine was

Salk for his part didn't deny that the vaccine

But he did insist that work to improve it was continuing.

to license the vaccine to several American pharmaceutical

And during the spring of 1955, nearly 5 million children

During an interview with legendary newsman Edward R.

The scientist famously responded with a question of his own,

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