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About Polio Sugar
Parents everywhere wanted to get their children inoculated against polio. Dr. Sabin and the Sugar Cube Vaccine. Dr. Albert Sabin, of the Children's Hospital Research Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio found a brand-new way to vaccinate children against polio - and it involved a sugar cube. Using a weakened version of the live virus, this new
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, sugar cube distribution became a popular method for delivering the oral polio vaccine. The sugar cubes were impregnated with the vaccine's live attenuated strains, allowing individuals to receive the vaccine by simply consuming the sugar cubes.
Some kids received the oral vaccine in a sugar cube. quotThere was a very, very low risk, like one in 2.4 million, that the oral polio vaccine could spread and cause polio,quot Evers said. quotSo in
The year was 1955 and I was in the seventh grade at a one-room schoolhouse about 11 miles west of Princeton. At least that's the year I think it was. It was about 65 years ago and one's memory can fade over that amount of time. But the exact year isn't important
True to Salk's prediction, polio was eradicated at least in the United States by 1979. At first, the vaccine developed by Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin at the University of Pittsburgh was injected. Later, it was given by Sabin vaccine-that sugar cube dosed with serum and taken orally.
About 60 years ago, I waited in line for a little sugar cube with a drop of vaccine on it quotOver six weeks in 1962, 1.5 million Cuyahoga County residents received three polio vaccinations via a
Young Tom Blahofski was reluctant to take his sugar cube containing the Sabin polio vaccine on March 8, 1964. Courtesy State Journal-Register digital reproduction from microfilm First- and second-graders topped the priority list when local public health officials prepared to deliver the first polio vaccinations in 1955. The program was a
Such efforts to inoculate kids against polio became common at schools and other venues across the country. The first large-scale use in the United States was April 24, 1960 - known as quotSabin Sundayquot - when thousands of residents of Greater Cincinnati received Sabin's polio vaccine on cubes of sugar.
As detailed in my book quotBetween Hope and Fear, a History of Vaccines and Human Immunity,quot the sugar cube was not originally intended to be the conveyor of the polio vaccine. Dr. Jonas Salk
Hillcrest student nurse Ruth Lindquist helps pharmacist Tom Mullen drip the oral polio vaccine onto sugar cubes during Tulsas quotSmash Polioquot campaign in January 1963. Each person taking the vaccine
