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Success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine...
Success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine...
Item # 708409
March 12, 1954
TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Mass., March 12, 1954
* Jonas Salk changes medical history
* Polio vaccine success announced
The front page has a historic and early report on the success of the polio vaccine with a two column heading: "Lifetime Polio Protection Hoped for in Vaccine" (see images) This was a very early report of clinical trial successes, and it would be 13 months later that a formal announcement would be made of a definitive polio vaccine being successful.
Complete with 18 pages, light toning at the margins, a little spine wear, generally in good condition.
Category: The 20th Century