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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1682149" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Many forget (or never knew) that the first real field 'test' of the experimental Salk polio vaccine was on about 600,000 American school children in the mid 1950s.</p><p> In all, more than 443,000 children received at least one polio inoculation, while more than 210,000 received a placebo, according to the March of Dimes.</p><p></p><p><em>A nationwide trial of an experimental vaccine using school children as virtual guinea pigs would be unthinkable in the United States today.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>But that's exactly what happened in 1954 when frantic American parents -- looking for anything that could beat back the horror of polio -- offered up more than 1.8 million children to serve as test subjects. They included 600,000 kids who would be injected with either a new polio vaccine or a placebo.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Equally remarkable, the Salk polio vaccine trial stands as the largest peacetime mobilization of volunteers in American history, requiring the efforts of 325,000 doctors, nurses, educators and private citizens -- with no money from federal grants or pharmaceutical companies. The results were tracked by volunteers using pencils and paper.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And it lasted just one year, with officials hopeful at the outset that they would be able to begin giving the vaccine to children within weeks of the final results.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"I can't imagine what the disease would be today that could get that many parents to sign up their children for an experimental vaccine trial," said Daniel Wilson, a history professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., who has written three books on the history of polio in the United States and is himself a polio survivor.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>[URL unfurl="true"]https://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/kids-ailments-health-news-434/the-salk-polio-vaccine-greatest-public-health-experiment-in-history-691915.html#:~:text=The%20results%20were%20tracked%20by,weeks%20of%20the%20final%20results.[/URL]</em></p><p></p><p>A different generation. For the most part, the parents of the Salk field trial children were also part of that Greatest Generation that just a few years prior, had put the nation's greater good before self, by the millions to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1682149, member: 18945"] Many forget (or never knew) that the first real field 'test' of the experimental Salk polio vaccine was on about 600,000 American school children in the mid 1950s. In all, more than 443,000 children received at least one polio inoculation, while more than 210,000 received a placebo, according to the March of Dimes. [I]A nationwide trial of an experimental vaccine using school children as virtual guinea pigs would be unthinkable in the United States today. But that's exactly what happened in 1954 when frantic American parents -- looking for anything that could beat back the horror of polio -- offered up more than 1.8 million children to serve as test subjects. They included 600,000 kids who would be injected with either a new polio vaccine or a placebo. Equally remarkable, the Salk polio vaccine trial stands as the largest peacetime mobilization of volunteers in American history, requiring the efforts of 325,000 doctors, nurses, educators and private citizens -- with no money from federal grants or pharmaceutical companies. The results were tracked by volunteers using pencils and paper. And it lasted just one year, with officials hopeful at the outset that they would be able to begin giving the vaccine to children within weeks of the final results. "I can't imagine what the disease would be today that could get that many parents to sign up their children for an experimental vaccine trial," said Daniel Wilson, a history professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., who has written three books on the history of polio in the United States and is himself a polio survivor. [URL unfurl="true"]https://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/kids-ailments-health-news-434/the-salk-polio-vaccine-greatest-public-health-experiment-in-history-691915.html#:~:text=The%20results%20were%20tracked%20by,weeks%20of%20the%20final%20results.[/URL][/I] A different generation. For the most part, the parents of the Salk field trial children were also part of that Greatest Generation that just a few years prior, had put the nation's greater good before self, by the millions to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]
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