Salk vaccine receivers can still transmit the virus, whereas the Sabin ones do not.
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It came to replace the Salk vaccine in many places between 1963 and 1999, according to the Smithsonian.
When the Salk vaccine came out, people celebrated, he said.
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Wyeth featured this interesting, and not so hypothetical case: What if lay jurors were allowed to decide whether it was reasonable for children to receive the Sabin polio vaccine instead of the Salk vaccine?
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It sounds like summer camp, but Warm Springs was in fact a retreat with a mission: to heal the spirits and bodies of Americans who'd been afflicted with polio before the Salk vaccine was developed in 1954.
Salk's vaccine, developed in the 1950s, involved injecting a virus that was "killed, " while Sabin's vaccine -- which he worked on in the 1960s and which was administered orally -- contained a weakened version of polio.
Salk tested his injected vaccine on himself and his family and announced his findings on CBS radio in March 1953.
Producing vaccine on a large scale requires virus samples in huge quantities and the tech did not exist when Salk started working on his vaccine.
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Albert Sabin came up with a vaccine shortly after Salk, which he claimed was more effective (debatable).
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Then came the invention of a vaccine by Jonas Salk, one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.
Between 1962 and 1964 more than 100 million Americans were inoculated, and by the mid-1960s his easy-to-administer vaccine--not Salk's--became the preferred one.
Between 1962 and 1964 more than 100 million Americans were inoculated on "Sabin Sundays, " and by the mid-1960s his easy-to-administer vaccine--not Salk's--became the preferred one.
"They've seen us make progress and want to be part of our success, " says Daly, who likens his quest to that of Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine.
Salk was celebrated as a hero and later worked on developing a vaccine for HIV.
In the event, the government used the Sabin vaccine until polio was eliminated, then switched over to the Salk.
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In 1952 Jonas Salk (1914-1995) and Albert Sabin (1906-1993) raced to come up with a vaccine for poliomyelitis--a virus that causes inflammation of nerve cells in the spinal cord, which can cause paralysis, atrophy of the skeletal muscles and death.
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