Tuesday, April 12, 2005
50 Years Ago Today...
...the first safe and effective Polio virus vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and his group at the University of Pittsburgh. The April 6th issue of JAMA has a piece regarding this that goes into all the back-biting and all-too-human subplots, but this part is the only one that really matters:
In 1955 there were 28,000 cases of Polio; two years later, there were 5485.
Thankyou Mr. Salk
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In 1955 there were 28,000 cases of Polio; two years later, there were 5485.
Thankyou Mr. Salk
# posted by Joe Florida @ 1:14 PM 
