National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Poliomyelitis Vaccination Field Trial Record
date: label: date made
content: 1954
name: label: associated person
content: Salk, Jonas E.
label: associated person
content: Kerr, Randall V.
label: maker
content: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
notes: label: Description
content: Vaccination record card for Randall Victor Kerr, a participant in the 1954 national polio vaccine field trial. Randall (Randy) Kerr, a 2nd grader in Fairfax, Virginia, was the first school child to be innoculated during the field trial. The vaccination record card includes the date, vaccine lot number, and physician for each of Kerr's three innoculations. The trial was a "double-blind" study. Neither the participants receiving the innoculations, nor the professionals giving the innoculations, knew which vaccine lots were actual vaccine and which were placebo.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Falls Church
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.221419.10
label: accession number
content: 221419
label: catalog number
content: 221419.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vaccination record card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 in; x 21.59 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 8 in; 11.7475 cm x 20.32 cm