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55th anniversay of Polio Vaccination

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Elizabethofseasons

Elizabethofseasons Report 5 May 2010 17:00

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are all well.

Dr Jonas Salk, the world-famous American virologist
promoted polio vaccine in UK and watched as Margaret Jenkins, aged 21, became the 500,000th person in London to receive the polio vaccine.

Polio is a highly infectious virus which spreads from the intestines, attacks the brain and spinal cord and can cause paralysis.

By the 1960s the Salk vaccine - first used to prevent polio in 1954 - was replaced by the Sabin vaccine, administered orally.

Since widespread vaccination began in 1955, the crippling virus has been wiped out everywhere except for a few regions of Asia and Africa. There have been no cases in the western world since 1991.

Dr Jonas Salk founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and then devoted his attentions to world peace, speaking at conferences around the world. He died in 1995 aged 80.

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Jonas Salk and
Albert Bruce Sabin, the Polish-born American microbiologist,
many millions of people have been vaccinated against this terrible illness.

Take care all
Very best wishes
xx

Cooper

Cooper Report 5 May 2010 17:14

We should be forever indebted to Dr Salk for his dedication and insite in preventing this terrible disease.

To all research scientists-we owe our health to you

Teresa

Researching:
Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)