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

When Julie Andrews sang "A Spoonful of Sugar" in the Disney movie "Mary Poppins," she was referring to the common practice of adding a sugar cube to Sabin's oral polio vaccine, the song's author ...

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 ...

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.

When Julie Andrews sang “A Spoonful of Sugar” in the Disney movie “Mary Poppins,” she was referring to the common practice of adding a sugar cube to Sabin’s oral polio vaccine ...