It is an injectable, inactivated polio vaccine that is still used in some countries today. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ...

The impact was dramatic: In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894. By 1959, 90 other countries used Salk's vaccine. Another researcher, Albert Sabin, didn't think ...

As much as two-thirds of the oral Sabin and injected Salk polio vaccine supply given from 1955 to 1963 in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany and other countries was contaminated with SV40, according ...

For decades, Cincinnati Children’s has nurtured a reputation for vaccine development and testing, from Albert Sabin’s pioneering polio vaccine to the groundbreaking influenza research of today.

Isolation of Sabin type 3 poliovirus can be expected in children and communities immunized with bivalent oral polio vaccine, which contains attenuated (weakened) type 1 and type 3 Sabin strains.