Polio Vaccine

In this article, Riazat Butt discuses the suspension of polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio has not been contained and this decision could have worldwide implications.

In this article, author Meredith Melnick discusses the discourse surrounding vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement spreading in the United States. She talks about the fear that people have about vaccinating their children and how skepticism of vaccines can add to the conversation surrounding…

This image shows representations of different ways that awareness around polio was spread in the United States.

This graph shows the reported polio cases and deaths in the United States from 1910 to 2022. 

In this photograph, nurses are learning how to use a negative pressure ventilator. These ventilators enabled a person to breathe when normal muscle control had been lost or the work of breathing exceeded the person's ability.

<p><span class="deck">Polio’s legacy to those who survived it includes uncommon stamina and courage and one grim new joke.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The conquest of polio</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than a million children participated in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine trials of 1954, the largest public-health experiment in American history.</span></p>