polio vaccine
Americannoun
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As a historical counterweight, consider Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, who refused to patent it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Aaby and his colleagues have followed populations before and after the oral polio vaccine campaigns that began in 1995 and ended in roughly 2015 in various low-income countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Bangladesh and Uganda.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
I suspect that none of the parents who volunteered for Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine trial were hoping their children were in the placebo group.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1955 to international acclaim, announcing he would also make it free.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024
But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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