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Feb 9, 2010 · On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the...
- Missy Sullivan
However, the poliovirus is on the verge of global eradication today – an astounding achievement of modern medicine. Jonas Salk played a pivotal role in achieving this success by being the first to devise and implement a safe and effective vaccine against polio.
- Siang Yong Tan, Nate Ponstein
- 2019
Jonas Edward Salk (/ s ɔː l k /; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine .
- Although polio was the most feared disease of the 20th century, it was hardly the deadliest. “Polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed in the media, not even at its height in the 1940s and 1950s,” writes David M. Oshinsky in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Polio: An American Story.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt proved instrumental in the vaccine’s development. A year after his nomination as a Democratic vice presidential candidate, rising political star Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio while vacationing at his summer home on Campobello Island in 1921.
- Salk challenged prevailing scientific orthodoxy in his vaccine development. Elvis Presley makes an appearance in support of the March of Dimes, 1950s.
- Salk tested the vaccine on himself and his family. After successfully inoculating thousands of monkeys, Salk began the risky step of testing the vaccine on humans in 1952.
Jonas Edward Salk is credited with creating the first effective vaccine against poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Epidemics of poliomyelitis had intensified, and in 1952, about 58,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths were reported in the United States alone.
- Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle
- 1998
Oct 10, 1998 · On 23 January 1953, Jonas Salk of Pittsburgh presented the results of his tests of a “killed virus” polio vaccine on 161 children to the Immunization Committee, a scientific advisory committee to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. 2, 3 The foundation, created in 1938 by President Roosevelt and his law partner, Basil O’Connor, was a...
Oct 28, 2014 · The Sciences. The first vaccine against polio, developed by Jonas Salk in 1954 while he was at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, registered a success rate of only 60 to 90...
