On Jan. 1, 1956, Children’s Orthopedic Hospital opened the Northwest’s first Poison Control Center to advise callers on…
On Aug. 17, 1955, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the hiring of 48 temporary investigators…
On Apr. 26, 1955, Officials first noticed an increase in reported polio cases in California. Soon it was…
On Apr. 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh was…
On Apr. 12, 1955, a convocation was held at the University of Michigan (UM), where Dr. Thomas Francis…
In April 1955, Cutter Laboratories, located in Berkeley, California and one of several companies licensed by the U.S….
In 1955, the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress, the first federal involvement in…
On Apr. 28, 1955, The National Poliomyelitis Surveillance Program was established by the Surgeon General of the Public…
In 1955, Canada contributed to the safe cultivation of the poliovirus, using Medium 199, and an incubation process…
On Apr. 26, 1954, the largest controlled Polio vaccine field trial in the history of medicine got under…
On Apr. 25, 1954, the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as…
On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of the new Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk…
In February 1954, first-, second- and third-grade students from five suburban schools were the first to be inoculated…
In 1954, John Franklin Enders and Thomas C. Peebles isolated measles virus from an 11-year-old boy, David Edmonston….
In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk and associates develop a potentially safe injectable vaccine against polio given to nearly…
In 1954, D. Weinman and A.H Chandler suggested T. gondii transmission via consumption of undercooked meat. in 1956,…
On May 16, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk initiated the first community-based pilot trial of the Polio vaccine in…
On Mar. 28, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team published a landmark article in the Journal of…
On Jan. 26, 1953, World Leprosy Day was established by Raoul Follereau a French writer and journalist. This…
In 1953, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first transmission of rabies by…
In Oct. 1952, Dr. William McDowall Hammon of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health published…
On Jul. 16, 1952, a heat-phenol inactivated typhoid vaccine by Wyeth was licensed by the U.S. Food and…
On Jun. 12, 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk went to the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled Children (now…
In Jun. and Jul. of 1952, Dr. William Hammon continued with his gamma globulin Polio vaccine field trials…
In 1952, the summer of 1952 recorded 57,628 cases, the worst polio epidemic in U.S. history. This added…
In 1952, the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was created by World Health Organization (WHO) to…
In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team found monkey kidney tissue to be the most fertile environment…
In 1951, Lewis L. Coriell whose history in polio research began during his residency at Children’s Hospital of…
In 1951, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team began using Dr. John F. Enders’ methods to grow poliovirus,…
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…