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This timeline from Global Polio Eradication Initiative of pictures, descriptions, and events -- all of which describe the history of polio and its vaccine -- is organized into three large sections: "Endemic Polio 1580BC-1953," "Vaccine Breakthrough 195-1987," and "Push for Eradication 1988-Present." Click on "Endemic Polio 1580BC-1953," to read about the oldest historical reports of polio, the 1916 New York outbreak of polio, and the early medical advances to fight the disease. The second and third sections of this timeline, "Vaccine Breakthrough 1954-1987" and "Push for Eradication 1988-Present," overview the progress scientists and doctors have made in preventing polio and in attempting to free the world of it.
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