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Title
Youngstown
Polio
Vaccine
Immunization
Volunteer
Preparing
Vaccine
Photograph
Subject
Science and Technology
Vaccinations
Medicine
Communicable diseases
Poliomyelitis
Place
Youngstown (Ohio)
Mahoning County (Ohio)
Description
This
11
"
x
14
"
(24.9
by
35.6
cm)
photograph
depicts
a
volunteer
for the
Type
II
Sabin
oral
polio
vaccine
immunization
program
in
Youngstown
,
Ohio
in
1962
. The
volunteer
is
standing
next
to
several
five-gallon
bottles
of
distilled
water
with
which
the
vaccine
was
mixed
. The
immunization
program
was
sponsored
by the
Mahoning
County
Medical
Society
and was
endorsed
by the
American
Medial
Association
. The
vaccine
developed
by
Albert
B
.
Sabin
,
which
uses
a
weakened
form
of the
disease-causing
virus
, was
easier
to
administer
than the
injection
developed
by
Jonas
Salk
, in
which
the
virus
is
inactivated
or
killed
.
Colorless
and
tasteless
, the
Sabin
vaccine
could
be
dispensed
by
dropper
,
mixed
with
distilled
water
, or
put
into a
sugar
cube
.
Two
phases
of
mass
immunizations
using
the
Sabin
vaccine
occurred
in
late
1961
and
early
1962
in
Youngstown
,
one
on
November
30
and
December
2
,
1961
and the
other
on
February
15
and
17
,
1962
.
During
each
phase
approximately
130,000
Mahoning
County
residents
were
immunized
against
polio
.
Children
were the
primary
focus
of the
efforts
.
More
than
15,000
school
children
took
part
and
most
of the
18
vaccination
stations
countywide
were
located
in
school
buildings
.
Poliomyelitis
, also
called
polio
or
infantile
paralysis
,
is
an
infectious
disease
caused
by a
virus
that
can
result
in
paralysis
or
death
.
It
primarily
strikes
children
. From the
1910s
until
the
development
of
successful
vaccines
in the
1950s
approximately
38,000
cases
of
polio
were
reported
in the
United
States
each
year
.
Vaccines
work
by
exposing
the
body
to a
weakened
dose
of the
virus
,
which
stimulates
the
immune
system
to
fight
it
off
on
subsequent
exposure
.
Polio
is
extremely
rare
in the
United
States
and
worldwide
as a
result
mass
polio
immunization
campaigns
.
Creator
W. Forres Stewart Photography
Pix Incorporated
Date of Original
February
,
1962
Collection
Type
II
Sabin
Oral
Polio
Vaccine
Immunization
Program
Photographs
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Rose Melnick Medical Museum Youngstown State University
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2143_1874782_007.tif
Image Height
3491
Image Width
2552
File Size
970.196 KB
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