Dr. Richard Mulvaney administers the trial Polio vaccine to six-year-old Randall Kerr (Source: March of Dimes)

Dr. Richard Mulvaney administers the trial Polio vaccine to six-year-old Randall Kerr (Source: March of Dimes)

"The Shot That Was Felt Around the World": McLean's Polio Pioneers

April 26, 1954, wasn’t an ordinary day at work for Dr. Richard Mulvaney. As McLean, Virginia’s first general practitioner, he treated all types of patients, but he’d never dealt with a situation like the one that awaited him at Franklin Sherman Elementary School that morning.