POLIO INVESTIGATION - 1953
Dr. C. P. Li and Dr. Morris Schaeffer in Montgomery, Alabama during the Polio Investigation in 1953.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1953
POLIO VACCINATION CENTER
People arriving at a vaccination center in British Guiana [now Guyana] during the 1962-63 polio outbreak.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1962-1963
BRITISH GUYANA OUTBREAK - Residential Area
Street Scene Georgetown, British Guiana. Type 1 Poliomyelitis Epidemic in British Guiana, 1962-63,
was controlled with Trivalent Oral Poliovirus Vaccine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1962-1963
BRITISH GUIANA [GUYANA] - Outbreak
Aerial View of Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana] during the 1962-1963 polio epidemic.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
~1960s
WELLBEE POLIO POSTER
Wellbee poster on the wall announcing polio clinic. Wellbee was developed at the Communicable Disease Center as a public health symbol that could be used by all state and local public health agencies to help promote "wellbeing".
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1963
MOBILE VACCINATION UNITS
Girl receiving polio vaccination at mobile clinic.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1961
POLIOMYELITIS VACCINATIONS
Beauty pageant contestants receive their polio vaccinations in Columbus, Georgia.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1961
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL - Building One
The first building on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Clifton Road campus.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
~1960s
LABORATORY GLOVE BOX
Glove ports which provide airtight access to a controlled atmospheric chamber, or a “glove box”, designed to protect laboratory scientists from the pathogens they were working with.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
~1960s