%0 Journal Article
%T Polio¡¯s Precarious Future A Review of Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication and an Interview with Dr. T. Jacob John
%A Claire Panosian Dunavan
%J Archive of "The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene".
%D 2019
%R 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0046
%X Dateline 1957. At Brentwood Elementary School, I gravely receive Jonas Salk¡¯s miracle shots, today known as inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Five years later, at Paul Revere Junior High, I crunch sugar cubes dotted with pink along with other Angelenos who, between 1962 and 1963, collectively ingest 7.5 million doses of Albert Sabin¡¯s oral polio vaccine (OPV). By now, the upside is clearer. With my own eyes, I have seen children wearing awkward leg braces and read about iron lungs. Soon after my birth, the latter, boiler-like contraptions filled entire wards of Los Angeles County-USC hospital during my city¡¯s last, great polio epidemic
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6402912/