Afghanistan becomes the final polio-endemic country to introduce the inactivated polio vaccine as part of the biggest globally synchronized vaccine introduction in history. As part of the Government of Afghanistan’s ongoing efforts to eradicate polio and strengthen routine immunization, H.E Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, today formally introduced the Inactivated Polio […]

The Salk vaccine eradicates polio — forever.  Come celebrate World Polio Day and the esteemed Salk biographer, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, M.D. at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, CT, 1800 East Putnam Avenue. The event will take place Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Speakers include Kevin Kimberlin & Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs. Because of HEROs like Jonas Salk we are on the cusp […]

Inside Salk has launched PolioToday.org, a resource for polio survivors intended to raise awareness of the crippling post-polio syndrome (PPS), a serious neuromuscular condition that can strike an estimated 40-50 percent of people decades after they were first infected with poliovirus. The World Health Organization estimates there are about 10-20 million polio survivors worldwide. Characterized by extreme fatigue […]

JAY WENGER September 10, 2015 In the last week, the World Health Organization confirmed that three children— two in Ukraine and one in Mali— were paralyzed from circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV). Though the Ukraine and Mali cases are unrelated, the root cause was failure to vaccinate children, leaving large populations of unprotected kids in these […]

Any polio outbreak begins in the same way: a child complaining of a headache and a fever. Within just a few hours, the virus causes rapid onset, floppy, paralysis, for which there is no cure. Whether caused by one of the three strains of wild poliovirus (WPV) or by circulating vaccine derived poliovirus (cVDPV), the […]

Crowdsourced Ideas from Five Solvers Identify Approaches to Making Delivery of Noninfectious Polio Vaccine Easier and More Affordable  WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and BeyondPolio, an initiative of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and the investment firm Spencer Trask, today announced the solutions of its first […]