It’s late fall and all the seasonal illnesses are making their rounds: colds, flu, COVID, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses and infections. Unfortunately, modern […]
Tag: polio
Next year’s hottest accessory: iron lungs
Children — some as young as toddlers just learning to walk, some well into their adolescence — with metal braces caging each leg, crutches tucked up under […]
The particulars of polio: Is the dreaded disease coming back?
As improbable as it initially sounded last month, polio just might be making a resurgence across the U.S. and the world. To understand what that means emotionally, […]
Nearly 80 years of vaccines and all were apolitical — until now
by Iver Mindel In the late 1980s, on a school day in early March at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, classes were suspended for a day. […]
Don’t rush a COVID-19 vaccine
Salk’s son talks about COVID Do the necessary clinical work and don’t rush a vaccine for COVID-19. That’s what Peter Salk, son of polio vaccine inventor Jonas […]
