The Disturbing Story Of The Polio Vaccine

[@cuttingedgeinnovationstati5208]

My grandfather worked with Salk in his lab as a grad student. I'm very privileged to have pictures of the two of them together and to have heard the stories.

[@keithsvenson568]

well now i'm curious for pics.

[@Logan-vu5fm]

Umm hmmm...

[@Wildiscool]

Im skeptical but im listening

[@feliciagaffney1998]

That's really cool!

[@mulderyes]

My grandpa was one of the first rounds to receive a polio vaccine. He says he remembers his friends and classmates devoloping the disease and passing away. Americans seem to forget what life used to be like before vaccines

[@glai5752]

I’m afraid they didn’t forget. Many of them never knew the history in the first place and remained ignorant and misinformed. What makes it worse is how much misinformation are out there on the web and people choose to listen to the bad

[@sayorancode]

@@glai5752 US history is only taught 1 year in high school (excluding world history) at least where i am in california. english is taught 4 years, even physED is taught 2 years.

[@Lamb666]

@@sayorancodethat’s misleading as a lot of this is covered in science courses. I do love that my teachers would dunk on the idiotic steady state theory that evangelicals push to force upon others.

[@rickwrites2612]

​​@@Lamb666oh dear I've never heard of that but am afraid to even look it up. Ok I'm a Xennial and I don't recall learning it from school but from osmosis ie family talking. And I was raised by a single mom w 8th grade education and my grandma finished high school. But they SAW polio and the importance of vaccines firsthand and communicated it to us. So where did this stop? I know theres always been some anti-vaxx or ignorant but it's gone way up. So, is it just Gen X has dropped the ball at passing this info on within families? Or us it just the antivaxx weirdos can affect so much more ppl now since mass media has become democratize without media literacy and critical thinking being democratized.

[@byuftbl]

I remember life just before the Covid vaccine came out. My grandpa died because the vaccine wasn’t available yet. Unless people had a family member die from it, they don’t realize this was affecting people you know, they weren’t just a statistic you read about.

[@cindystrachan8566]

I’m old enough to remember going to school with kids permanently disabled by polio. I also remember going to school with my Mom to stand in line for vaccines, including polio. The numbers of cases before and after the vaccine is so exciting by showing vaccines work. Thanks for sharing this info.

[@hummuslord6521]

Thank you for sharing this, God bless you and your family 🙏🏽

[@Marta1Buck]

I have one neighbor with it, he's now almost 40. He visually doesn't have calf muscles on both legs

[@janemiettinen5176]

My grandpa’s brother had it, he walked with crutches, just one when he felt better. Polio was called child paralysis in my language, it took me years to understand what he actually had! I remember my vaccination, it felt so odd to get sugar cube from our school nurse :)

[@prinzezze]

@@Marta1Buckhow did he get polio? 40 is young!

[@CherylKasson]

I was in the first generation to receive the Slak vaccine. I remember the photos of people in iron lungs when I was a child.

[@chancock4222]

Yet we have a nepo-baby lawyer with brain worms saying we shouldn't have it.

[@bytesizebiotech]

"lawyer"... what a disgrace to the name of judicial professionals.

[@dozer11]

How anyone believes or thinks that guy is intelligent is frustrating. He’s not an expert in healthcare or science, so why the F do people believe him?

[@Clarytee217]

We have truly learned nothing as a society

[@user-hl8tq8uw2b]

I met Dr. Salk as a 9-year-old as he was treating my great uncle after removing his lung due to cancer. I could tell that Dr Salk was someone very special watching my parents talk to him.

[@rickwrites2612]

Oh wow that is so cool. I didn't know they could remove a lung then.

[@pynetrees3]

He was a virologist, virologists don’t perform surgery…

[@shawkid]

I am from INDIA and my country had a lot of problems with polio and I still remember when i got my polio drops. Hearing this story made me realize how hard doctors and researchers work not just to develope cure but also for it to reach people.

[@tab8294]

Respect your docs indians , I have seen you people beat your docs which is shameful

[@star5384]

Wydm your English is better than 99 percent of Americans

[@monikagombkotoova2074]

You have a typo in your comment. It is the last line.

[@glai5752]

Your English is perfect sweetie, so is what you’re trying to say. People need to hear this. Thank you Dr. Mike!

[@thomasgcampbell]

Your English is better than my Hindi. Thanks for sharing!

[@plasticbutler]

If there were idiotic social media back then, there would be Prosecute Salk hash tags.

[@tournamentmaster2000]

instead of prosecuting the company that manufactured the vaccine incorrectly

[@sayorancode]

LOL that is fax fr bro

[@julesmilovich]

Such a timely video. Please continue to tell more stories about the history of vaccines, vaccine skepticism, and the lessons we can learn.

[@fearxhusky114]

The history of medicine is very fascinating to me, i hope to see more content like this in the future!

[@michy5937]

Me toooo!

[@cathywithac]

My mom grew up in Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario. My mom remembers multiple covid-like quarantines every few years because of polio. Quarantines were not new to her and she struggled to understand during covid why everyone refused to understand that quarantine blocks the spread of disease. My mom remembers summers not being able to play with any of her friends and not being allowed out of their fenced in backyard. My mom remembers public health posting 'quarantine' notices on the front doors of families with polio warning everyone to keep away. My mom remembers kids not coming back to school after each polio epidemic. My mom remembers her school friends that survived the initial polio illness crippled and dying young from the ongoing health complications. One that she knows of lived in an iron lung for a few years. Also, for her, it was common enough for school friends to develop tb, measles, mumps, chicken pox and die of those diseases. It was their 'normal'. They lived it. My parents made sure that their kids were first in line when the polio vaccine came out and other vaccines too. Why? Because they loved us. BTW, we received both vaccines. Thank you Dr Jonas Salk, Dr Albert B. Sabin and their teams.

[@byuftbl]

People died from chicken pox?? I’ve never heard of people dying from that even when we didn’t have the chicken pox vaccine. I didn’t think it was ever deadly?

[@thomasgcampbell]

I was an aid worker in South Sudan and there are still polio cases in some of the poorest areas of central Africa, not just Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[@StarshipBambooBadger]

A literal definition of a hero

[@hibryd7481]

So important in this age to have a sense of history and to understand how we got where we are, thank you for making it digestible and interesting.

[@Michelle_Lynnn]

“Dr. Mike, the true story of a doctor who turns down millions worth of deals with other companies because he has integrity”

[@PrinAnie]

My uncle had polio. A mild case where he cannot move his shoulder in full rotation. My dad born 8 years later was vaccinated as early as possible. My cousin had whooping cough when she was too young for the vaccine. She was in hospital for a while, but luckily she has no permanent damage. Let's just say that my family is pro-vax (Also we are neighbours. My heritage is Litvac)

[@tomhalla426]

The irony is that polio outbreaks were the result of better sanitation. Given pre late 19th Century sanitation and child mortality rates, polio was lost in the general horrid child mortality rate. Developing polio as an adult was much more severe, as with FDR.

[@robhardingpoetry]

Hey Dr Mike. Would love you to use your platform to educate about leprosy. It’s one of those things people think of as ancient and extinct but is really prevent in African and Asian countries where things such as stigma mean it spreads despite being not highly contagious. And the cure has been around since the 80s and is free. Similar to this vid in that we think of it as an older disease but still persists despite treatment being available

[@yasmimkettly447]

Yessss please

[@thecatfather857]

Armadillos can often get it too.

[@robhardingpoetry]

@ I may be wrong but I thought they were just carriers but don’t contract it?

[@ashlynchard7044]

A great story, but can we talk about how good Dr Mike is at telling stories?!

[@caroljeanscott5571]

I have seen other reports on the Salk and polio and Dr. Mike seems to be accurate.

[@melissabaier268]

Right Doc Mikhail is got to Be #1 in Story tell he can make ANYONE WANT TO LISTEN ❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU Doc Mikhail Varshavski ❤❤❤💯🥰

[@teerat8451]

Earthworm oil, a bucket of ox blood, and a shot of brandy. This explains quite a lot about how my parents raised me.

[@chanelmaxelon6058]

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you

[@areemmjay]

Amazing video. I only wish people spoke more about the consequences of a polio comeback. We still have patients with hemiparesis and post polio syndrome who's lives were undoubtedly changed by contracting polio as children. And yet, it seems like everyone's forgotten how terrifying this disease was.

[@tsundemon]

And it's unfortunate that they hired someone who wants to deter people to get the polio vaccine

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Well we had about 50 Polio free years, i guess RFKJ is ready to bring us back to the Polio days

[@Marwolaeth01]

Went searching in the comments for this sort of mention. Thought no way is it a coincidence that one of RFK Junior's lawyers has petitioned to revoke the Polio vaccine, and here we have a video explaining why that would be a monumentally stupid idea.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

​@@Marwolaeth01That story broke only within the past few days and animation takes a long time. So it was in the works before. But it's also possible they fast tracked this immediately after the election and the timing was just serendipitous

[@SherriLyle80s]

Thank goodness for inoculations and those that get their shots. I am immunocompromised and also take immunosuppressants. They save lives!

[@teresadiodato]

It's necessary to remind the importance of vaccines in an era where misinformation has made it become dangerous while it is exactly the opposite. This video gives evidence of how the vaccine has saved lives and put an end to terrible diseases. Thanks, Doctor Mike

[@pamelamays4186]

The song A Spoonful Of Sugar was inspiring by the manner the Polio vaccine was administered to children in some schools. A drop of it was placed on a sugar cube which given to the children to consume.

[@shir_XP]

i remember making a presentation on this guy,it was honestly bone chillling finding out he tested on his family

[@Austin-rv9ut]

the animations was a perfect touch!! awesome job man

[@Γιώργος-ε3τ]

I wish all of our scientists were like that, unfortunately its hard to be altruistic in the modern day, sometimes people even make it hard for someone to be an altruist

[@AmethystEyes]

I will always remember the quote from Jonas Salk when the reporter asked him who the vaccine patent belongs to, and Jonas said “well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Can you patent the sun?“, an amazing man. Such a mensch! I remember reading that before he died he was working on a vaccine for HIV/AIDS.

[@krfan5459]

There is speculation that FDR didn't actually have polio, given his age at the time and some of the symptoms that he had experienced. Some people think that he may have actually had Guillain-Barré syndrome.

[@jaime717]

I love these animated history stories! Can you make one about the discovery of insulin? Thank you for your integrity and honesty, Dr. Mike.

[@thetravelinfoguide]

Hey Doctor Mike! Looking forward to another video!

[@RipWinter]

A legend of American history for sure!

[@CharlieRamage]

I did not know anything about this dr mike is amazing now when I grow up I want to be a dr thank so much for all of you do

[@hequestrian_11]

WAKE DR MIKE POSTED!

[@smith2354]

“Could you patent the sun?” Brings me to tears. I wish heroes like Salk existed today in the realm of Medicine.

[@loki7679]

Early today doc... Thanx for such amazing and informative videos...❤

[@notwhoweusedtobe7760]

Less than a minute in... Immigrants, they get the job done. Annnd now I'll be singing the Hamilton soundtrack for the rest of the day 😂

[@kirstenirwin9084]

My Opa had polio well before the vaccine was invented. He was lucky that he lived a life with a good job as a tool maker for GM, met and married my Oma, and had my Mom and her sister. Still, he had a lot of health issues as he got older and less mobile. It was sad to see the way he deteriorated.

[@shakeyj4523]

Telling us you are of German ancestry. Love it.

[@Memez_Goalpost]

FATHER HAS FED US

[@radhikapavuluri8667]

Fr

[@sandyg4646]

Ew

[@star5384]

Absolutely yeah

[@tearsintherain6311]

Brother may I have some content

[@michelletogher4058]

Learning is fun! Thanks!

[@EmiliaOliveira-l9s]

Thank you for your informative videos Dr Mike ❤

[@CatCmdr]

When I was small, I knew of polio. You’d see quite a few people who needed assistive devices to walk, or worse. The Salk brothers were amazing. I remember getting the oral polio vaccine by a nurse who came into our class in Elementary School and had a tray with sugar cubes on it. We each got to eat a sugar cube, and that’s how we got vaccinated. 😊

[@thondr]

If you watch the video you'll realize the sugar cube oral version was Sabin's version. The live vaccine.

[@Ikantspell4]

My grandma spent time in a wheelchair with complications from polio when she was younger. She wasn't expected to walk but until her passing in her 80s she walked everywhere she went and was quite proud of beating the Doctors expectations. I'm so glad the vaccine was around for me and for my children because I know how bad my grandma and her generation had it.

[@alejandraojeda-riga2023]

I love DR. Mike. I literally just finished my semester at my university and i can’t wait to watch videos during the holidays.

[@Flyeditz84]

OH MY DAYS WAKE UP!!! THE KING DOC POSTEDDD

[@bufyc1779]

Grateful to have had my “sugar cube” in 1960. Unfortunately, I did get to experience German measles, chicken pox, and mumps as no vaccine at that time. Still have my smallpox scar from when I was a toddler.

[@EazymoneyBicch]

Yoo Doctor Mike, CONGRATS on 13 million subs man. U deserve it!!!

[@TiksterFc7]

Always a Banger!

[@Artyomthewalrus]

You should talk about Robert Liston. The pioneer of anesthesia, and the first person to use it in surgery. He was a tricky chap, disliked at the time by his colleagues - today many only know him as the speed running doctor who killed 3 people in a single surgery - that incident had no first hand witnesses and was likely a fabrication to discredit him (he had an abrasive personality and had strong issues with how many in the medical industry used practices that were killing people) He also assaulted the doctor who was buying the bodies from the most famous medical serial killers because he took issue with how said doctor was displaying on of the victims before dissection - although at the time he did not know she was murdered for the sake of dissection Many interesting things tied into his story. He had a greater focus on hygiene than most of his contemporaries (although he wasn't a pioneer in this regard, others were more influential). He also had a few less noteworthy inventions like bulldog forceps.

[@richardsanford5722]

I love this vid you did so well Doctor Mike

[@tfkrockhard]

Could you go over history of thalidomide ?

[@Spellbound_Rose]

That would be fascinating!! Great idea!!

[@iamforeverdonique]

Wonderful video. Very well organized, and informative. Keep up the good work Mike 💯

[@snjcracker]

Love the animations

[@onemercilessming1342]

Jean Piaget, Swiss Psychologist, tested his theories on his children, too. In 1968, his text, Origins of Intellect was the first class I took on my way to becoming a teacher...which I didn't actually finish until 1990, leaving teaching for a mechanical engineering degree that was awarded in 1972...but that's "a whole 'nother story"!!

[@RachelKay528]

Very timely and important video! Thank you for posting!

[@BulletBoy4Ever]

What a way to start my day, with Dr. Mike!

[@adityajoshi5032]

Hello Dr. Idk whether u will see this but the attractive animation and your way of teaching was AWESOME. Looking forward for more such videos. Luv from India

[@ysabellegienahv.egasan8247]

Hello Doctor mike! I just wanted to tell you that i want to become a doctor just like you! I've been watching your videos for a while now and i felt like i learned a lot from you by just watching and taking notes. I just wanted to thank you for making these videos and learn from the best ❤

[@zackrice9395]

This is a man I never heard of and a story I never heard. Thank you Jonas Edward Salk is an American Hero

[@RN-cy5ml]

Great video Dr. Mike! The animation and storytelling is excellent. Do more like this please!!

[@locatesheep]

i love these story videos. pls make more

[@rituparnaporia8501]

Wonderfully presented

[@tammyv9899]

I knew none of the history behind the polio vaccine. Thank you for the education on it. I was just talking to my son about even before his great grandfather was born he lost brothers and sister to polio and the flu. Everyone needs to hear this story and understand how important vaccines are.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

My Mom lived through the last major outbreak of Polio in 1952. I lived in the County ( Wythe) in Virginia. The first day I was eligible my parents had me vaccinated, for Polio. I still remember how there was a long line, for the vaccine. It was unbelievable to me to see so many people in one place.

[@TLguitar]

I have an uncle who contracted polio as an infant during an outbreak, just a few years before the vaccine became available, and he developed a pretty significant paralysis on one side of his body. Fortunately his other half hasn't been affected and he became a successful (award winning, even) caricaturist and illustrator. Now, I do think sometimes there is a tendency to over-panic the public, and it is okay to maintain some grains of salt and not take everything at face value. Even (if not especially) science and the way it is communicated is a continuous learning process where common knowledge may change with time. But the evidence for the effectiveness of vaccines against once-common deadly diseases is overwhelming, and the logic behind them is not that incomprehensible, so I cannot understand those who think it is all a big conspiracy.

[@daphnea5447]

Good morning!

[@LeviBrunt]

Good morning!

[@GUJJARNIKKI21]

Good night

[@bobotuama9918]

G morning from Philly

[@dai7585]

Good morning!!

[@WyattOShea]

It's almost midnight here :).

[@Hiker_who_Sews]

I had polio in 1954, and today have the usual "post polio syndrome" aches and pains. Reminds me everyday to be thankful for vaccines.

[@happycommuter3523]

I wish I could like this video a million times.

[@jacktringoli3299]

This was an awesome video Dr. Mike! Should definitely do more of this type of content it was really interesting and still entertaining!

[@plovmike]

Dr Mike we need another Christmas video before Christmas

[@Mster_J]

He doesn’t celebrate Christmas

[@Kaesar24]

@@Mster_JI think they’re talking about a hallmark medical movie or Christmas medical movie

[@RippER711_]

thank you for your service dr mike

[@chandu.g]

For a second I thought it was story about Frederick Banting & Insulin and how he gave it away for 1$ before watching video and how companies making billions of profit form his invention 0:00

[@Yoongles-875]

Wake up! Doctor Mike posted! 😸 Doctor Mike! I am so so sorry to disturb you! I sent you an email. Can you please revert back to me soon? Thank you so much!

[@UltraPickleMan]

Hope he never does🙏

[@mikethetowns]

My ma's first husband had parents who were OG anti-vax. And he ended up gettin' polio at a young age. Pretty much wrecked one of his legs, was smaller than the other from that point on and he's been in chronic pain all his life due to it. And is now in a wheelchair. I'd rather risk gettin' omega-autism than play roulette with polio.

[@tuktuk3142]

Amazing video and content.i enjoyed it i learned it thanks mikhail

[@nemesisbianchie5181]

Great video, as always 👏👏👏👏👏

[@rhiannitha]

I really hope you make more videos like this! Really interesting and informative and just a really great video! I dont comment often but really had to let it be known that this is such a good video

[@AJRMaybeManTour]

3 minutes is crazy amazing guy.

[@szariq7338]

Amazingly I've recently had an immunology lecture on my medical university about vaccines, including for polio and I've never expected Poles to be that important in developing polio vaccines. Not only Sabin, but also Koprowski, which was actually the first one to create a live polio vaccine and in Poland we give credit to both of them by naming the live polio vaccine (although pulled out from use in Poland) after them both. And after that lecture I was convinced, that live vaccines should be used whenever possible (on example for tuberculosis), however if suffering the disease from getting the shot would be catastrophic or if manufacturing capabilities of live vaccines can't catch up with the immediate need of an outbreak, then sure, inactivated or other dead vaccines are fine too.

[@roowyrm9576]

One of my childhood friends had an older brother who had been permanently disabled by polio. (UK) He needed crutches for the rest of his life ( into his late 60s). He did have calipers, but found them e,seemingly painful causing bruising, chafing and blistering on his legs where straps were rubbing, and were heavy and limited his movements. He was much more mobile with crutches.

[@JJJ._.990]

You encouraged me to become a doctor, Mikhail. So thank you for that.❤ I’m also currently learning Russian. Privyet doctor Mike.😊

[@rburk121]

Awesome video! Keep up the good fight.

[@emmadown-f2k]

Dr.Mike you teach me so much things i don't even know. i want to be a doctor because of you thank you so much

[@devanshshah2567]

ily doctor mike

[@EmilyTurner-j4y]

Your videos always manage to cheer me up even on the grayest day. Thank you for your cheerful creativity and positive approach!💻🐮🥇

[@TheRealNibs]

Hi mike

[@janicedowson7793]

Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

[@davidsanders5652]

Interesting. So the UK clearly didn't used the Salk vaccine. I had the sugar cube! This was a very long time ago...early 1960s.

[@a-liberal-patriot]

Me, too, here in the US. What is interesting to me is that my mother told me years later that shortly after taking it, I was "weak and sickly" for about six weeks.

[@BentleyFn-i6v]

Hey Doctor Mike Hope your doing Well

[@bijayalaxmimohanty478]

Goodnight (from India) 😅

[@DanielAusMV-op9mi]

Good night (to India) ❤

[@star5384]

Good night (from srilanka)

[@WyattOShea]

Same but from Australia (11:41pm right now in Perth).

[@JJK_SATORU_GOJOO]

Good morning from the US ! Hope you have a good night ! :)

[@JM-vh7oc]

Well done. I remember the March of Dimes when I was a child (in the 50's), My sister had polio. She was in the hospital for a month or so and luckily came through it without lasting problems.

[@Belle_belle492]

I really liked this! Please continue these cool history videos on medical science/ discoveries!

[@justenoughrandomness8989]

panic made this case a whole lot worse than it should have been

[@chayoluna1351]

Great upload! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@deborahpace5489]

Love this

[@mistyfiedwhisper5321]

this was a great video! Thank you so much!

[@TheKyPerson]

My mother was a nurse and she had seen what polio could do to a person. As soon as the Salk vaccine was available, she made sure all of us kids got it. We later got the Sabin vaccine too. Dr Salk is one of my personal heroes.

[@bea4156]

Thank you so much for sharing this important story!! 💚💚

[@Benizu-yd3ly]

I was just watching 1 of ur videos😮