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

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2022

"Culturally, the Salk vaccine especially, since it eliminated the fear of the most dreaded childhood disease, significantly increased the appreciation of what modern medicine could accomplish," Wilson explained.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2021

Six years following the introduction of the Salk vaccine, polio was almost eradicated as a major public health problem in the United States.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 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