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Tag: Poliovirus

Photo: CDC rRT-PCR test kit for COVID-19. Credit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control; Wikimedia Commons.

Comparing the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Polio Epidemic

By Jane Cook on April 17, 2020

In this article, with the whole world fighting COVID-19, Jane Hampton Cook compares this pandemic to the fight against polio 70 years ago... (Read More)

Photo: this 1963 poster featured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national symbol of public health, the "Wellbee," encouraging the public to receive an oral polio vaccine. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Wikimedia Commons.

Salk’s Vaccine Vanquished Poliovirus 65 Years Ago

By Jane Cook on April 13, 2020

In this article, with the whole world hoping for a coronavirus vaccine, Jane Hampton Cook writes about the vaccine that conquered polio 65 years ago... (Read More)


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