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Jonas Salk First to come up with a vaccine for polio.

Polio Virus

Albert B. Sabin Created the first oral polio vaccine.

What is Polio?:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • 50th Anniversary of the First Polio Vaccine
    • Timeline
  • Global Polio Eradication
  • Health Topic: Polio
  • Polio Disease
  • Polio Vaccine Information
• End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease, Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
  (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
• Information About the Late Effects of Polio
• Library holdings at The Evergreen State College Library on Polio
• Polio Vaccine (via Wikipedia)
• Post-Polio Syndrome
• PubMed (MedLine)
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• Remembering Polio (via the University of Pittsburgh)
• What is Polio?
• Whatever Happened to Polio?
  • Timeline

About Jonas Salk:

• Jonas Salk (via Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
• Jonas Salk (via The TIME 100)
• Jonas Salk, 1914 - 1995 (via PBS' A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries)

About the Salk Vaccine: (Killed Polio Virus)

• Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• Salk Produces Polio Vaccine, 1952 (via PBS' A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries)

About Albert Sabin:

• Biography
• Legacy of Albert B. Sabin
• Sabin Vaccine Institute

About the Sabin Vaccine: (Oral Polio Vaccine Using Live Polio Virus)

• Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine (via Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
• Albert B. Sabin Archives

John Franklin Enders	Frederick C. Robbins	Thomas H. Weller
Enders, Robbins and Weller successfully cultivated the poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures. This made it possible to study the virus in a test tube. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954

Simon Flexner Isolated the polio vaccine for laboratory study

Ross Granville Harrison Developed the first animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States Contracted polio at age 39 while vacationing in Campobello Island in Canada

Other Contributions:

• David Bodian
• Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian Nurse
  • Elizabeth Kenny Papers
  • Fighting Polio with "gentle hands " (via Minnesota Public Radio)
  • Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
• Famous People Who Had Polio
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (via Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• Frederick C. Robbins (via Nobel Prize)
• John Franklin Enders (via Nobel Prize)
• March of Dimes
  • Timeline
• Ross Granville Harrison
  • Articles on Harrison's research from the Journal of Experimental Zoology
    • Ross Harrison's The Outgrowth of the Nerve Fiber as a Mode of Protoplasmic Movement
      by Haig Keshishian
    • S. Ramon y Cajal, R.G. Harrison and the Beginnings of Neuroembryology
      by Viktor Hamburger
    • What Comes First: The Structure or the Egg? Ross Granville Harrison on the Origin of Embryonic Polarity
      by Martina Brueckner
• Simon Flexner
  • Simon Flexner Papers
• Thomas H. Weller (via Nobel Prize)

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