Jonas Salk

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United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)

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We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio? Joseph B. Wirthlin

Finally, there was a savior in our midst, Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed a vaccine that killed the virus and saved us all. Source: Internet

Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine that became widely used in 1955, and another oral polio vaccine was developed in 1961. Source: Internet

The controversy was eventually settled by an agreement (helped along by the mediation of Dr Jonas Salk ) between President Ronald Reagan and Mitterrand which gave equal credit to both men and their teams. Source: Internet

In 1955 Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than seven million American students. Source: Internet

This work aided Jonas Salk in deriving a polio vaccine from deactivated polio viruses; this vaccine was shown to be effective in 1955. Source: Internet

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