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Title	Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine Brochure
Subject	Science and Technology Vaccinations Medicine Communicable diseases Poliomyelitis
Place	Westlake (Ohio) Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This public information brochure, titled "Important Questions & Answers about Sabin Oral Sundays" provided residents of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County with basic information about the oral polio vaccine, explained where to go to get the vaccine, and encouraged participation in the 1962 "Sabin Oral Sundays" mass immunization program. The brochure is four pages in length and measures 5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm). Approximately 1.5 million people received the vaccine by ingesting sugar cubes. Dr. Albert Sabin (1906-1993) was born in Poland and moved to Cincinnati in 1939 to join the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, which provided stronger immunity and lasted longer than the dead-cell vaccine developed by Joseph Salk. The first "Sabin Sunday" was held on April 24, 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Between 1962 and 1964, approximately 100 million people of all ages received the vaccine in the United States. 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
Date of Original	1962 circa
Source	Published material
Submitting Institution	Westlake Porter Public Library
Type	Text

Title	Om2625_1909563_001
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
File Name	Om2625_1909563_001.tif
Image Height	2528
Image Width	1642
File Size	908.394 KB
Full Text	I J Just three drops of Sabin Vaccine taken three times on a lump of sugar can save you from polio for Iife.sos sabin oral smdays

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