Dr. L.M. Sims and nurses Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. McCormick in a hospital ward with victims of the infantile paralysis epidemic of 1916 in Beacon, NY.
Research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first polio case was...
Professor Monica Trujillo holds up wastewater samples at a lab at Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first polio case was...
Mother carries her baby to an ambulance to be taken to the hospital during the infantile paralysis epidemic of 1916.
Los Angeles: A One Family Epidemic. Last summer, six of the eight Demars children were stricken with polio in Los Angeles. Now that four of them are...
Hospital staff are examining a patient in a tank respirator, iron lung, during the Rhode Island polio epidemic, 1960. The iron lung encased the...
Professor Monica Trujillo holds up a wastewater sample at a lab at Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first polio case was...
An iron lung, sponsored by the March of Dimes charity, helps a young boy with polio to breathe, USA, circa 1955.
Professor of Biology John Dennehy holds a tool for wastewater collection at a lab in Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first...
Carol Ciminelli holds a photo of herself as a young child in one hand, and a copy of her Covid-19 vaccine card in the other hand, at her home in...
Member of the medical staff shows an empty vial of rubella and measles vaccine during a mass vaccination day, at the medical assistance centre in the...
Professor Monica Trujillo takes notes as she prepares for a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022 in New York City. -...
Sara Sheard, R.N., a staff nurse at Meadowbrook Hospital in East Meadow, New York, examines one of the three iron lungs brought to the facility to...
The old look and the new look in crutches are compared by a victim of the first polio epidemic recorded in the United States in 1894 and a victim of...
Dr. Abraham Lingher tired from drawing from volunteers of which to make serum to use in treatment of Infantile Paralysis.
Boston: Reinforcements For Polio Epidemic. Truckers and hospital personnel unload two of the four iron lungs that were shipped to Boston's Children's...
In April 1955, in France, a rehabilitation center for patients with polio that swept the world in epidemic and crippling millions of people, The...
Medic administers polio drops to a child on Polio Ravivar at Officers flat, DDU Marg, on June 27, 2021 in New Delhi, India.
Community health worker shows a vial of an oral polio vaccine, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus, at a...
Polio vaccine is seen at an immunization postAugust 30, 2005 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Amid fears polio could spread to other Asian countries, Indonesia...
Member of the medical staff shows an empty vial of polio vaccine during a mass vaccination day, at the medical assistance centre in the neighbourhood...
Visitors look at a sculpture made by students of IT University in an art gallery on the theme of polio vaccination in Quetta on October 21, 2022.
Man crippled by polio rides a skateboard through traffic November 12, 2003 in Lagos, Nigeria. The polio virus often causes wasting of the lower...
Parent brings her child to be administered an oral polio vaccine, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus, at...
Community health worker administers an oral polio vaccine to a child, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus,...
Professor of Biology John Dennehy holds a tool for wastewater collection at a lab in Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first...
Community health worker administers an oral polio vaccine to a child, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus,...
Vaccination campaign launched with the support of the Yemeni Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund...
**Scanned from contact low-res** Although no hand shaking was permitted as a precaution against the polio epidemic, the Queen and the Duke of...
Children look at a sculpture made by students of IT University in an art gallery on the theme of polio vaccination in Quetta on October 21, 2022.
Girl accompanied by her mother receives drops of polio vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice neighborhood in...
Health workers and volunteers put up polio vaccination streamers, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus, at...
Free. Chicago, Illinois: Mrs. Rose Stamler uses microphone to publicize free Polio shots being given July 30th, for the first time here in a public...
Health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Karachi on November 28, 2022.
Professor of Biology John Dennehy poses for a portrait at a lab in Queens College on August 25 in New York City. - Since the first polio case was...
Girl accompanied by her mother receives a dose of polio vaccine from medical personnel in a mobile vaccination post provisionally installed in the...
6th graders, including Akari Ogawa Charlotte Levesque and Carissa Arends work on Covid vaccine posters during class at Franklin Sherman Elementary...
Girl accompanied by her mother receives a dose of measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice...
Child accompanied by his mother receives a dose of the measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice...
Pakistani health worker administers polio drops to Afghan child during an anti-polio campaign at Afghan refugees settlement in the outskirts of...
Kenneth Reeves and Kent Gant reading comics at the US Navy Hospital in Corona, California, 1948. The boys are recovering from polio during an...
Nigerian schoolboy is vaccinated against polio during a mass nationwide polio inoculation April 12 in Kano, Nigeria. International aid workers once...
Little Rock, Arkansas: Polio Patients Crowded. Polio epidemic conditions necessitated the close crowding of these respirators in the polio ward at...
She's Helping. Are You? Baltimore, Md.: After more than three years in a respirator, Carolyn Sandin of Arlington, Va., is shown in an iron lung at...
Girl accompanied by her mother receives a dose of the measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice...
6th graders work on Covid vaccine posters during class at Franklin Sherman Elementary School on October 28, 2021 in McLean, Virginia. The school was...
Vaccination campaign launched with the support of the Yemeni Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund...
Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination campaign on a railway station in Lahore on May 16,...
Ghanaian teenagers who contracted polio and lost their walking ability, are seen in Tudu district of Accra, Ghana on May 14, 2017. Teenagers who...
Boston: Polio Rise Continues. Iron lungs jam the Hynes Memorial Hospital in Boston, center of the fight against the Polio epidemic sweeping...
With the poliomyelitis outbreak in Wilmington and the North Delaware area reaching epidemic proportions, planes of the United States Public Health...
Man with polio wrestles with a friend November 1, 2003 in Lagos, Nigeria. The polio virus often causes wasting of the lower limbs. Kano led northern...
Vaccination campaign launched with the support of the Yemeni Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund...
Health worker feed the Polio drops to children below 5yrs at Parle, on November 1, 2020 in Mumbai, India.
Health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination door-to-door campaign in the outskirts of Quetta on July 20,...
Community health worker administers an oral polio vaccine to a child, during a mass vaccination campaign to combat the resurgence of the polio virus,...
Pakistani Christian health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination campaign in a Christian colony in Islamabad...