Antivaccinationists versus Jonas Salk’s centennial

One thing that happened this week that I didn’t get around to writing about is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jonas Salk, which was October 28. In the annals of medicine, few people have had as immediate a positive effect as Jonas Salk did when he developed the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). At…
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Clinical trials History Medicine Popular culture Science Albert Sabin Cutter incident Edward Haslam injected polio vaccine Jonas Salk Kelleigh Nelson Mary Sherman oral polio vaccine Paul Offit Source Type: blogs