Salk vaccine

When the Salk vaccine came out, we were among the first children who were vaccinated.

Acceptance of these vaccines even survived setbacks such as the “Cutter incident” in which a Berkeley manufacturer of the Salk vaccine issued contaminated lots that sickened 40,000 children.

While there, he witnessed a polio outbreak in the summer of 1955, the year the Salk vaccine became available.

The Salk vaccine required three injections, plus a booster, which meant multiple trips to the doctor.

That’s also true of polio, which lost its capacity to terrorize the public soon after mass inoculations with the Salk vaccine were launched in the mid-1950s.