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Explore eight surprising facts about the groundbreaking polio vaccine that Dr. Salk developed.

I was struck by the illness as a child. We will put everyone in danger if we allow discredited reports to proliferate

In 1954, family doctors vaccinated their own children against polio to show it was safe. We should all do the same thing today and share our stories.

A little-known research facility in South Carolina housed thousands of monkeys and was key to developing the polio vaccine.

One patient threatens to fire family physician for even broaching the topic

Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The mass inoculation of millions of American children against polio in 1955, like the vaccinations of millions of American adults against COVID-19 in 2021, was a triumph of science. But the polio v...

Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Credit: NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Cant Help Falling In Love With A Vaccine: How Polio Campaign Beat Vaccine Hesitancy By at 6:00 am NPR The mass inoculation of millions of American children against polio in 19...

Susan Brink Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuers...

When Glenn Kessler began editing the Washington Post’s Fact Checker in 2011, he described himself in an interview as “someone who tries to cut through the muck for Americans who don’t have time do that”. In the terminal phase of the Trump administration, even for Kessler, there has been more muck than time. The Fact Checker, which is both a blog and a Sunday newspaper column, was conceived to use “false or misleading claims” by public officials (graded on a scale of one to four �...