A major difficulty with large vaccination campaigns is storage and transport of vaccine material.
On April 13, The New York Times reported on promising results in global efforts to eradicate polio.
An online project from The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
In January of this year, staff from the History of Vaccines project traveled to Baltimore along with other College of Physicians staffers to interview D.A. Henderson, MD, who directed a worldwide campaign for the eradication of smallpox—the only disease ever to be wiped out.
Were you a polio pioneer, or are you related to someone who was? We’re looking for people who participated in the groundbreaking trial for Jonas Salk’s killed-virus polio vaccine in 1954.