Of course, the sugar didn't have any medicinal quality — the liquid vaccine was dripped onto the cubes to make the medicine go down, especially for children, the primary targets for the vaccine.

Once the vaccine was developed in the 1960s, a doctor in Palm Beach County came up with a nifty way to inoculate thousands — with a cube of sugar in a little paper cup at the Delray Beach Drive ...

We lined up for our sugar cube vaccines at school to contribute to the public good that would, we knew, save many more individuals from the ravages of the virus. I don’t share Jean’s story to ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system. Now, researchers have developed a universal vaccine that ...

So far, there’s been just one recent case of polio in the United States, which paralyzed a young adult in Rockland County, New York. One case – and evidence in sewage of more spread – may ...

A few years later, this same group of doctors led a program called Sabin Oral Sundays, in which county residents were invited to receive their polio vaccines orally, by eating a sugar cube laced ...

In addition to creating antibodies that target a specific region of the spike protein that doesn't mutate, the vaccine removes the sugar coat from the virus that allows it to hide in the body.

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system. Now, researchers have developed a universal vaccine that ...