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How did the polio vaccine change the world?
Learn how the polio vaccine, whose original formulation was announced by Jonas Salk...
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Children with polio and the administration of polio vaccine
Archival footage showing children with polio, Jonas Salk giving injections of vaccine,...
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Images

Polio vaccine
A health care worker giving a polio vaccine to a child in Katsina state, Nigeria,...
Alford Williams/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
polio testing
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist carrying out molecular...
James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Jonas Salk; polio vaccine
Jonas Salk vaccinating a young girl for polio in 1953.
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
A child wearing a brace on a leg that has been affected by polio.
RIBI Image Library (CC BY-SA 2.0)
historical mass vaccination programs in the United States
In the United States, mass vaccination programs carried out against diphtheria, polio,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.