What was life like before childhood vaccines? In this episode, of the University of Pittsburgh school of Medicine podcast, we hear from people who grew up in the shadow of a crippling disease: among them, school kids from the clinical trials of Jonas Salk’s killed-virus polio vaccine. Their accounts tell the story of how ordinary people helped win the struggle against one of the most crippling diseases in history.
Life Before the Polio Vaccine
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