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On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo.
One year later, on April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere.
On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo.
One year later, on April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere.
Polio vaccine trials begin
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Being born in a Military Hospital, I was giving a series of shots. To this day I have my original government immunization record. Basically my parents nor I had any choice and all these vaccines were given. I am grateful that I took that and others. When my children were born my wife and I knew the significance of these vaccines and they were given without any hesitation.
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I remember getting my polio shot and then when they went to the live virus on the sugar cube.
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I remember the school nurse coming to the classroom with a tray full of sugar cubes with a little red dot of vaccine. Everyone got one and no one complained, funny how times have changed.
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