While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation hearings, ...
On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...
Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...