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A healthcare worker administers polio vaccine to a child in the Ndirande Township of Blantyre, Malawi, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kenneth Jali)

On ‘V-Day,’ manufacturers celebrate the polio vaccine

By Jay Timmons

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 11 - In this Friday, April 27, 2018 photo, attorney Paul Alexander looks out from inside his iron lung at his home in Dallas. Now in his 70s, Alexander is one of the few people left who uses an iron lung to help facilitate breathing for those affected by polio. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Dallas attorney, 72, who survived polio lives in iron lung

By MARC RAMIREZ - Associated Press

FILE – In this April 11, 2005, file photo, Dr. Jonathan D. Salk, left, son of Dr. Jonas Salk, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor of The Washington Post and a child polio patient, mark the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine's April 1955 introduction while visiting an exhibit titled &quot;Whatever Happened to Polio?&quot; at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Jonathan Salk, who helped his father complete the 1981 book &quot;World Population and Human Values: A New Reality,&quot; has updated the book with new data, graphics and a redesign, coinciding with the 62nd anniversary in 2017 of the polio vaccine's introduction. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari, File)

Forgotten Jonas Salk book on population growth gets update

By DAVID TEMPLETON and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Associated Press