Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker", and the day "almost became a national holiday." His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
It was a frequently fatal disease, and people who didn't die were often left paralysed or with the extremely debilitating Post Polio Syndrome. Once a person had had polio, there was very little chance of them returning to their pre illness level of health. It affected a person's ability to work and could push a family into poverty very quickly, and this had knock on effects for the whole of society.
When the Salk vaccine was discovered, it was hailed as very, very good news as it was cheap and easy to produce and it worked.
No, Jonas Salk was not the only one that made a polio vaccine. Dr. Albert Sabin made one a few years after in 1963.
In the 1950s, Salk developed the first polio vaccine, an injection. In 1962, Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, taken by mouth, and still used, at present.
The name of man who invented the polio vaccine is Jonas Salk.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk's biggest invention was the Polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine in 1952.
Jonas salk was a scientist that invented the polio vaccine.
The polio vaccine is called the Salk vaccine after it was invented by Dr Jonas Salk.
Jonas Salk
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Jonas Salk
The polio vaccination was discovered by Jonas Salk.