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My father isn’t one to proffer childhood anecdotes, but there is one story he likes to tell: it’s about his polio vaccine. He was in elementary school when the Sabin vaccine (named for Alfred Sabin, the Jewish scientist who developed it) became available for general use. He lived in a small Connecticut town where crowds…
Happy birthday Jonas Salk! Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to the Jewish inventor of the polio vaccine, born 100 years ago today in New York City. Been a long time since high school science class? Here’s a little refresher: Who Is Jonas Salk Jonas Salk 1914, New York City – 1995, San Diego) graduated from…
A strain of the polio virus was found in waste water near Hadera, meaning that the virus has spread to the north of Israel. The discovery comes two weeks into a national vaccination project to innoculate all Israeli children ages nine and under with a weakened form of the live virus. The vaccination project, scheduled…
Israel said on Sunday it was launching a campaign to administer the active polio vaccine to children in its southern region after tests detected at least 1,000 carriers of the virus in that area, though none were found to be ill with the disease. The Health Ministry said it was recommending that children born after…
