The Polio Story: The Vaccine That Changed the world
1. What is a vaccine?
Name:
2. What was the first manufactured vaccine for? What year?
3. Before the vaccine for pertussis/whooping cough was created, how many people would die
from it each year?
4. What season was considered polio season? During what years?
5. What age did it mostly hit children?
6. What is another name for polio?
7. What were some of the myths for the spread of polio?
8. How is polio spread?
9. What does the virus attack?
10. What is an iron lung?
11. What were some lasting problems of polio?
12. Which president had polio? What age was he?
13. What organization was started by FDR?
14. Why was it called that?
15. How much was raised in the first year?
16. What was the goal of the organization?
17. How many types of polio were known?
18. Who was the scientist working on the polio vaccine?
19. They couldn’t give kids a live vaccine, so his plan was to what?
20. The first attempts at vaccines did what to kids?
21. How did Salk plan to inactivate the polio virus?
22. Which scientist was also working on a polio vaccine, and Salk’s rival?
23. All vaccines work in two ways. What are they?
24. Who was the president of the march of dimes?
25. How did they decide to first test the vaccine on people?
26. What year did they test polio on healthy kids? How many kids?
27. What two things did the panel change about the vaccine during the field trial?
28. Why did Salk dislike what the panel decided?
29. How effective was the vaccine considered?
30. Why do you think polio spiked during the summer?
31. Do you know anyone who had polio when they were young? Have you heard of any
outbreaks in your lifetime? Why?