Salk vaccine

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Acceptance of these vaccines even survived setbacks such as the “Cutter incident” in which a Berkeley manufacturer of the Salk vaccine issued contaminated lots that sickened 40,000 children.

From Los Angeles Times

While there, he witnessed a polio outbreak in the summer of 1955, the year the Salk vaccine became available.

From New York Times

The Salk vaccine required three injections, plus a booster, which meant multiple trips to the doctor.

From Washington Post

That’s also true of polio, which lost its capacity to terrorize the public soon after mass inoculations with the Salk vaccine were launched in the mid-1950s.

From Los Angeles Times

Other, more advanced polio vaccines designed to supplement the original Salk vaccine have also failed, causing oral polio vaccine viruses to revert to wild-type and become virulent again.

From Scientific American