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Polio: An American Story

Book by David M. Oshinsky; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...tion of safe and effective polio vaccines. But there is much about the...most obvious weapon against polio would be a vaccine that stimulated the immune system...modern virology, progress on a polio vaccine was held up purely by chance...
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In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History

Book by Kathryn Black; Addison-Wesley, 1996

Subjects:

Black, Virginia--D. 1956--Health, Poliomyelitis--Patients--Arizona--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...not be dismayed. A decade of polio summers, the high-profile...fund-raising, and word of a vaccines development had kept the disease...polio viruses exist? How did polio enter into, travel through, and leave the body? Could vaccines be made that would prevent...
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The Vaccine Controversy: The History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations

Book by Kurt Link; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Vaccination, Vaccination--Complications, Vaccination--History, Vaccines--Health Aspects, Vaccines--Safety Measures

Collections: Entire Library

...Rubella Vaccine 82 Chapter 13: Polio Vaccine 86 Chapter 14: Flu Vaccine...Indeed, in the early days of polio vaccine development such a contamination...to natural infection. (Live polio vaccine is an exception; multiple doses...
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Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine

Book by Patricia Thomas; Public Affairs, 2001

Subjects:

Aids Vaccines--Popular Works

Collections: Entire Library

A veteran journalist dramatizes the controversial search for an AIDS vaccine--the players, the politics, the money--in a vivid, suspenseful story that reveals how science is done, and not done, in America today.
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The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis

Book by Bernard Seytre, Mary Shaffer; Rutgers University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis Vaccine--History, Poliomyelitis--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...With the widespread use of the polio vaccines, the Na- tional Foundation...prospects for the devel- opment of a polio vaccine appeared grim. The puzzle of the...ers were haunted by memories of polio vaccine trials where things had gone...

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50th Anniversary of the First Polio Vaccine

Journal article; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 68, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis vaccine--Distribution, Poliovirus vaccines--Distribution, Vaccination--Analysis, Vaccination--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

50th Anniversary of the First Polio Vaccine. April 12, 1955, was a unique...Since the introduction of the polio vaccine, great strides have been made...children. For more information on the polio vaccine, visit www.cdc.gov/nip/events...
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The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

Journal article by John Treanor; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006

Subjects:

Biological products industry, Gas pipeline construction, Legal liability, Liability (Law), Vaccines, Virus diseases

Collections: Entire Library

...How Americas First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing...tests. However, the vaccine, rather than preventing polio as it was supposed...elimination of measles and polio transmission in the...to be effective, vaccines must be administered...
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A One Shot Deal: The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act

Journal article by Elizabeth A. Breen; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 41, 1999

Subjects:

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Personal injuries--Remedies, Vaccines--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...only one company manufactured the polio vaccine.(55) Facing a potentially severe...poliovirus vaccine (IPV) over the oral polio vaccine (OPV). See Geoffrey Evans, Vaccine...to the orally administered lire polio vaccine, which can cause paralysis, also...
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Parents' Awareness and Perception of the Polio Eradication Programme in Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe State, Nigeria

Journal article by J.A. Obute, O.S. Arulogun; International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, Vol. 45, 2007

Subjects:

Community health services--Management, Health promotion--Management, Health promotion--Services, Parents--Behavior, Parents--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Poliomyelitis--Care and treatment

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...6%) parents were worried about polio vaccine overdose, 31 (7.3%) believed the...aged 0-59 months were given oral polio vaccine in the four rounds of NIDs carried...population of 309,210 and an oral polio vaccine target population of 72,134 (Gombe...
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The HPV Vaccine: Separating Politics from Science-A Commentary

Journal article by Ellen M. Daley, Robert J. Mcdermott; American Journal of Health Education, Vol. 38, 2007

Subjects:

Cervical cancer--Causes of, Cervical cancer--Prevention, Papillomavirus infections--Care and treatment, Papillomavirus infections--Diagnosis, Papillomavirus infections--Risk factors, Papillomavirus vaccines--Political aspects, Papillomavirus vaccines--Social aspects, Papillomavirus vaccines--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...widespread dissemination of Salks polio vaccine, there were over 16,000 cases...organizations to disseminate the polio vaccine have reduced the global burden...Disease Control and Prevention. Polio vaccine timeline. Available at http...

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Virus and the Vaccine: A Simian Virus Known as SV40 Has Been Associated with a Number of Rare Human Cancers. This Same Virus Contaminated the Polio Vaccine ..

Magazine article by Debbie Bookchin, Jim Schumacher; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, February 2000

Subjects:

Carcinogenesis, Poliomyelitis, Vaccination, Virus diseases

Collections: Entire Library

...This Same Virus Contaminated the Polio Vaccine ... by Debbie Bookchin...contaminated early doses of the polio vaccine, but that had long been presumed...for him the history of the early polio vaccine. A breakthrough in the war against...
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The Virus and the Vaccine : A Simian Virus Known as SV40 Has Been Associated with a Number of Rare Human Cancers. This Same Virus Contaminated the Polio Vaccine Administered to 98 Million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal Health Officials See Little Reason for Concern. A Growing Cadre of Medical Researchers Disagree

Magazine article by Debbie Bookchin, Jim Schumacher; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, February 2000

Subjects:

Cancer--Causes of, Mesothelioma--Research, SV40 (Virus)--Research, Simian virus type 40--Research, Simian viruses--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...This Same Virus Contaminated the Polio Vaccine Administered to 98 Million Americans...contaminated early doses of the polio vaccine, but that had long been presumed...for him the history of the early polio vaccine. A breakthrough in the war against...
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The Fear of Vaccines: Fear That a Vaccine Used by the WHO to Combat Polio Can Cause Sterility in Both Men and Women, Has Spurred Some Northern Nigerian States to Block a Crucial Vaccination Campaign That Is Aimed at Eradicating the Disease from West Africa by the End 2004. It Reminds Me of My Boyhood in Ghana

Magazine article by Cameron Duodu; New African, April 2004

Subjects:

Infertility--Health aspects, Nigeria--Health aspects, Poliomyelitis vaccine--Health aspects, Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Poliovirus vaccines--Health aspects, Vaccination--Social aspects, World Health Organization--Services

Collections: Entire Library

...vaccines had confirmed fears that the polio vaccine could cause sterility amongst...carry out further tests on the polio vaccine. But this has only added to the...rapidly diminishing uptake of the polio vaccine in Nigeria on bad publicity alone...
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Test Case

Magazine article by David Lindley; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 30, Winter 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Let to the Growing Vaccine Crisis (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...CUTTER INCIDENT: How Americas First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis...Univ. Press. 238 pp. $27.50 THE POLIO VACCINE IS ONE of medicines great success...efforts, in the 1930s, to create a polio vaccine were, by modern standards, staggeringly...
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How FDA Works to Ensure Vaccine Safety

Magazine article by Isadora B. Stehlin; FDA Consumer, Vol. 29, December 1995

Subjects:

Pertussis vaccines--Product development, Poliomyelitis vaccine--Product development, Poliovirus vaccines--Product development, Vaccines industry--Standards, Vaccines--Product development

Collections: Entire Library

...1955, the virus-inactivated Salk polio vaccine first went on the market. Unfortunately...nervous system, such as the live polio vaccine, "we test every lot because of...ARTICLE: Assessing Risks With Polio Vaccines In 1955, the year the polio...

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Polio Strikes Arizona Woman; Live Vaccine Exposure Eyed

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 5, 2006

Subjects:

Vaccines--Health aspects, Virus diseases--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...been administered a live oral polio vaccine just days earlier, health officials...unvaccinated persons exposed to oral polio vaccine during travel abroad," the team...received his first dose of oral polio vaccine on Jan. 19, 2005, just four days...
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New MMR Plea Issued to Parents; CHILD HEALTH: Latest Study Rules out a Link between Vaccine for Tots and Autism

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 9, 2008

Subjects:

Autism, Child health, Children--Health aspects, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, Medical research, Medicine, Experimental, Vaccination, Vaccines

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and the like. By not having your child...called into question the safety of the MMR vaccine. Dr Caron Grainger, the PCTs joint director...autism in children who have not had the MMR vaccine is the same as those who have." The study...
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Shock Cancer Risk for Polio Jab Kids

Newspaper article by Sharon Collins, Martyn Halle; The People (London, England), January 11, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...children of those given contaminated polio vaccine, although the Department of Health...humans in the 1950s as a result of polio vaccine grown on the kidneys of dead African...established between SV40 from polio vaccine and the later development of cancers...
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March to Polio Cure; Vaccine's Impact Recalled

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

March to Polio Cure; Vaccines Impact Recalled. Byline: Gabriella...50th anniversary of Dr. Jonas Salks polio vaccine. The 3,000-square-foot first-floor...marking the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine at the Smithsonian National Museum...
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Researcher Disputes Link between Salk Vaccine, Cancer

Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, February 19, 1999

Subjects:

Salk, Jonas E.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cancers are caused by an early polio vaccine contaminated with a monkey virus...news storys headline, "Pre-1963 Polio Vaccines May Be Killing Hundreds Through...was found to have contaminated a polio vaccine introduced in 1955 by Dr. Jonas...

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Poliomyelitis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...people who have had severe polio experience postpolio syndrome...immunization program with the Salk vaccine, a preparation made from killed...than a thousand new cases of polio worldwide. In 2003 4 the campaign...in N Nigeria refused to use vaccines they believed would sterilize...
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...promotion of reproductive and child health. Particular areas of concern include HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, polio, and vaccine research and production. Support for American education is also significant, with programs frequently aimed at raising...

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