A lasting public health victory: Polio vaccine at 50 years ... American Medical News
AMNews: Editorial - May 16, 2005. A lasting public health victory: Polio vaccine at 50 years ... American Medical News: "A lasting public health victory: Polio vaccine at 50 years
The polio vaccine's anniversary is a reminder of both the enormous threat posed by disease and the power of a concerted response in confronting it.
The recent observance of the 50th anniversary of the development of polio vaccine paid appropriate tribute to one of medicine's greatest triumphs.
Only a small number of physicians practicing in the United States have seen a patient with polio. But the memory of the disease -- often called infantile paralysis at the time -- was an ominous specter for the generations of Americans who grew up in the first half of the 20th century."
The polio vaccine's anniversary is a reminder of both the enormous threat posed by disease and the power of a concerted response in confronting it.
The recent observance of the 50th anniversary of the development of polio vaccine paid appropriate tribute to one of medicine's greatest triumphs.
Only a small number of physicians practicing in the United States have seen a patient with polio. But the memory of the disease -- often called infantile paralysis at the time -- was an ominous specter for the generations of Americans who grew up in the first half of the 20th century."
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