polio vaccine
Americannoun
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He went on to test a candidate polio vaccine in countries including Poland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and the Belgian Congo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Aaby and his colleagues have followed populations before and after the oral polio vaccine campaigns that began in 1995 and ended in roughly 2015 in various low-income countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Bangladesh and Uganda.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
Before Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine in the mid-1950s, the disease killed or paralyzed more than half a million people around the world each year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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