Salk Polio Vaccine

Salk Polio Vaccine is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Allegheny County, dedicated 2005.

Salk Hall, Univ. of Pitt, Terrace St. at Sutherland Dr. (across fr. Peterson Events Ctr.), Oakland (

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Pioneering research here at the University of Pittsburgh's Virus Research Laboratory from 1948 to 1955 produced the world's first polio vaccine. Led by Dr. Jonas Salk, researchers' innovations resulted in a breakthrough that was announced on April 12, 1955. Subsequent inoculations of school children virtually eradicated polio in the United States by 1962.

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1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1951 · Pittsburg East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1951 · Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1956 · Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1960 · Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Pittsburg East, Pennsylvania, 1951, covering the location of Salk Polio Vaccine, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pittsburg East, Pennsylvania, 1951, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Salk Polio Vaccine

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