It is an injectable, inactivated polio vaccine that is still used in some countries today. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dr. Albert Sabin developed a second, oral vaccine, and it was ...

Immigrant Albert Sabin and the son of an immigrant, Jonas Salk, developed the vaccines that ended polio as a threat to Americans. Neither Salk or Sabin – or their life-saving Polio vaccines ...

There are two polio vaccines widely used today. One is Salk's killed vaccine; the other is a live-attenuated vaccine first developed by Albert Sabin. In addition to polio and typhus, killed ...

Two forms of the polio vaccine are available: injected inactivated polio vaccine (IPV or Salk vaccine), introduced in 1955 and oral live-attenuated polio vaccine (OPV or Sabin vaccine), introduced ...

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 ...

In 1961, Dr. Albert Sabin developed an oral vaccine. Across the U.S., people lined up to swallow a simple sugar cube that had been injected with a weakened live polio virus. It worked. Today ...