Salk-Sabin+polio+vaccine

=Salk- Sabin Polio Vaccine=

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Overview Polio is a disease entered through the mouth and can paralyze you in an instant. It affects kids under the age of five for the most part. A miracle medicine came out on April 12, 1955. Dr. Jonas Salk's polio medicine which was rumored to actually work. People believed this to be their saving grace, for polio was affecting people everywhere and no one knew any cure or way to prevent it. During the 1800s polio became an epidemic, striking kids mostly. It is also kn own as infantile paralysis. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was struck with polio, and became one of the unfortunate one percent that become paraplegic. In 1952, the worst record of polio was recorded, it reached a high of 57, 628 people. That same year a trial vaccine was injected into patients and was declared mostly safe and effective.

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Main Point
Within the next two years, the percentage of polio cases dropped 85-90 percent due to Salk's vaccine. American physician Jonas Salk produced a killed-virus vaccine, and Polish-American physician Albert Sabin produced the opposite, a live virus vaccine. The Salk vaccine was used mostly in the United States and was very effective. Whereas the Sabin vaccine was used overseas. Both were very affective. In 1961, Sabin produced an oral vaccine. The Sabin vaccine was easier to produce and consume, so it became much more popular around the world.

Conclusion/Historical Significance [[image:therapy200.jpg width="150" height="160" align="right" caption="Polio children with therapist" link="http://sphtc.org/timeline/1940-3.jpg"]]
Both of the vaccines are very efficient and worked, they just worked in much different ways. When coordinated and used right, both of the vaccines would help eliminate cases of polio in all the world. The last reported case of polio caused by wild polio virus was in 1979.

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