She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...

Polio, a highly contagious viral infection that ... The most common side effect is a sore arm after the shot. "The injected vaccine does not carry any significant side effects," Dr. Peter Salk ...

The inactivated form, IPV for inactivated polio vaccine, has been used exclusively in the U.S. since 2000, according to the CDC, which recommends that children get four shots in the arm or leg ...

Polio struck future presidents and poor children ... “If live particles were injected into an arm muscle, the chances of paralysis were extremely high.” While Sabin’s research on a ...