On this day in 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of children and adults. Based on his results a large field trial was undertaken including some 440,000 children. The results of the field trial were announced on 12 April 1955 (the tenth anniversary of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose paralytic illness was generally believed to have been caused by polio.
Soon after Salk’s vaccine was licensed in 1955, children’s vaccination campaigns were launched. In the U.S., following a mass immunization campaign promoted by the March of Dimes, the annual number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 by 1957. By 1961 only 161 cases were recorded in the United States.
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Today is the birthday, in 1959, of British session drummer Chris Whitten who provided drums for the hit singles ‘What I Am’ by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, ‘World Shut your Mouth’ by Julian Cope and ‘The Whole of the Moon’ by The Waterboys. Whitten has also worked with Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, Swing Out Sister, ABC and The The. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA
