Describes the history of polio, the way it spreads, its major epidemics, treatments such as the iron lung and the Kenny method, and the impact of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin's vaccines, and includes a time line, glossary, and annotated bibliography.
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From obscurity to epidemic -- The early years of polio research -- Polio on the rise -- Coping with the incurable -- Vaccine trials--and errors -- Salk and Sabin.