Episode 7 Hit me with your best (polio) shot

A scientific rivalry for the ages, a president with a closely kept secret, and a summertime with no pool time. What do all these things have in common? Well step right up and take a listen- today we’re talking about polio, that virus that just won’t quit.

Books

Articles
Oshinsky, David M. Polio: an American story. Oxford University Press, 2005.Parker, Edward PK, et al. “Impact of inactivated poliovirus vaccine on mucosal immunity: implications for the polio eradication endgame.” Expert review of vaccines 14.8 (2015): 1113-1123.

Oldstone, Michael BA. Viruses, Plagues, and history: past, present and future. Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Kenneth, F. Kiple. “The Cambridge world history of human disease.” CUP, Cambridge (1993): 871.

 
Kehret, Peg. Small steps: The year I got polio. Albert Whitman and Company, 1996. 

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