Polio

  • Polio: Ongoing challenges

    posted by Ann G. Polio was one of the most dreaded diseases on earth during the first half of the 20th century, but if you were born after about 1970 you probably haven’t given it much of a thought—until recently. Current news reports include both accounts of the concerning increase in cases of Enterovirus 68,… Continue reading

  • Polio: Before the vaccine

    — by Ann G. This October 28 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jonas Salk, who developed the first safe and successful polio vaccine (the library is celebrating this milestone with a program called Polio Then and Now: From Salk’s Game-Changing Vaccine to Today’s Resurgence on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the… Continue reading