How U.S. and Soviet scientists fought polio
How U.S. and Soviet scientists fought polio during the Cold War Getty Images; Lev Porter/TASS “Epidemics have a way of spontaneously running out of steam,” veteran novelist Philip Roth wisely remarked in his last novel ‘Nemesis’, set during a polio epidemic in the United States. In the middle of the last century, polio was the number one killer of children across the globe. It was an incurable disease, until a vaccine was finally co-developed by the United States and USSR. Poliomyelitis (polio) is actually as old as the hills. An Egyptian stone engraving dating from...
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