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Salk, Sabin & the Polio Vaccines

The epidemic that terrified 1950s America, the March of Dimes, Salk's killed vaccine and the 1954 field trial with 1.8 million children, the Cutter incident, Sabin's oral vaccine, and the global push to eradicate polio.

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Good, Bad and Ugly: The History of Polio Vaccines - Professor Gareth Williams Gresham College · 50 min
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Prereqs: Jenner & vaccines; viruses. Next: Karikó & mRNA; epidemiology. Sources: David Oshinsky, *Polio: An American Story* (2005, Pulitzer); WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative; Gresham College.
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