Jonas Salk
From the beginning of mankind, man has looked for cures of illness. Jonas
Salk found a cure for one of the worst illnesses in the history of man, polio.
's polio vaccine was a great discovery of his time, and it is still
being used today to eradicate polio worldwide. Dr. Salk is also known for other
medical discoveries. He was a quiet man who lived a rough childhood. He was
not looking for fame, instead, it found him. During the time before the vaccine,
many people, mostly parents with young children, were very scared. Dr. Salk's
vaccine was a great relief to everyone. Yet, today polio is still affecting
people, even after receiving the vaccine. Just as polio is still around ...
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responsive child." Dr. Salk was "raised on the verge of poverty." Although
his family was poor, he did do exceptionally well in all the levels of education.
He graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1929 and then went on to the
College of the City of New York where he received his B.S. in 1934. He finally
earned his M.D. degree in June of 1939 from the New York University College of
Medicine. Jonas Salk was "a somewhat withdrawn and indistinct figure" but was
always reading whatever he could lay his hands on. Dr. Salk went on to intern
for two years at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He then moved on to the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a research professor in the Department of
Epidemology. It was here that he found a vaccine for influenza, commonly called
the flu, while he worked with Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. In 1947, when the
University of Pittsburgh expanded, he went to work there with a part in his
contract that said he could go back to Ann Arbor if ...
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1916 that the United States became well aware of
the polio dilemma. In that year, there were 27,363 cases of polio with 7,179
resulting in death. Unfortunately, the problem didn't go away; in New York City
there were 9,023 cases with 2,448 deaths. "The epidemics peaked in the United
States from 1942 to 1943,...In 1950, there were more than 33,000 United States
cases." The state of Florida was one of the many states that was hit hard with
polio. The director of the Florida Department of Public Health, Dr. Wilson
Sowder, said, "I have not seen a communicable disease that has disrupted a
community...as this has." The disease "was communicable as an intestinal virus
that would ...
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