The polio outbreak that hit the state of New York State in the summer of 1916, and left its mark on American life for half a century.
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Working in a Yale laboratory in the 1940s, Dorothy Horstmann solved a puzzle that would lead to the first polio vaccine.
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“Jaws” was based on a true event – the 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks that left four dead and one, an Irish kid named Joseph Dunn, severely injured.
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Polio was nearly eradicated with the Salk vaccine in 1955. At the time, little was known about this mysterious disease that paralyzed and sometimes killed...
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Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that is caused and transmitted by a virus called the poliovirus. Polio can cause paralysis and the...
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New York City was hit by one of the worst epidemics it had ever seen: the first explosive American outbreak of infantile paralysis — a disease...
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On July 12, 1916, 11-year-old Lester Stillwell and 24-year-old Stanley Fisher were both killed by a shark in Matawan Creek.
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In the summer of 1916, New York City was the theater of a spectacular polio outbreak, the largest at that point to occur in the US.
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Pictured here in the 1950s, polio patients breathe with the help of an iron lung. (Photos: Boston Children's Hospital Archives).
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Understanding the history of polio and its outbreak can help inform public health strategies and prevention, considering the recent...
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