Salk vaccine

American  

noun

1. a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.

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Salk vaccine Cultural  

1. The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis. It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.

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Etymology

Origin of Salk vaccine

First recorded in 1950–55; named after J. E. Salk

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Salk vaccine

When the Salk vaccine came out, we were among the first children who were vaccinated.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2024

The Salk vaccine required three injections, plus a booster, which meant multiple trips to the doctor.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2022

He also accused the foundation, the funder and organizer of trials for the Salk vaccine, of having unspecified “cola interests.”

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2021

A small Berkeley manufacturing firm, Cutter Laboratories, allowed a live polio virus to contaminate some of its batches of the Salk vaccine, which was based on a deactivated virus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

Polio, which had kept my parents quarantined indoors during the summers of their childhood, had been conquered by the Salk vaccine.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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