America has had plenty of scientist/doctors who are still around or have been deceased. Everyone has their own story or their own masterpiece of what they have come up with to help people in the world through them. They are the geniuses in the world as we call them. It has taken years for some of them to come up with the right idea/experiment, some it came to them right away and they put it into place where it can still be used in today’s time, just with a couple of modifications. Jonas Salk, he’s not a very common scientist name that you hear about such as Edison, Darwin, Newton etc. He was actually a big part in the medical world because he was the one person to come up with the vaccine to prevent polio disease. Jonas had made many studies
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Testing for this vaccine started in 1952, but within the next two years it expanded making it one of the largest clinical trials that was going on in medical history. About “one million children from the ages six to nine became known as the Polio Pioneers” (salk). Which his mentor Thomas Francis Jr. was the one who directed the mass of vaccination to the school children. Before testing them on all these kids, he tried it on himself and his family which they developed anti polio antibodies, but had no negative reactions to it. It was clear and there were results that the vaccine actually worked. He was looked at as a hero for coming up with this vaccine and saving the children of the time. President Eisenhower had rewarded him by giving him a special citation at a ceremony that was being held at the white …show more content…
More than 57,000 cases in the U.S. Decade later, the numbers starting going down and the Salk vaccine was going to be replaced it with the live virus vaccine instead of the one that was being used which was the killing virus. Albert Sabin was the creator behind the live virus vaccine, it was less expensive and way easier to use then how it was before. Expensive or not Salk never earned money from this discovery or having it done, it was just distributed as widely as it needed to be. Colleagues of Salk didn’t approve much of what he was doing, they said “he hadn’t found anything new; he had just applied what was there” (pbs), which was not true. He came up with something that no one else really didn’t pay mind too. The timing of his successful vaccine was at the peak of polio devastation which of course made everyone blind to what was going
Testing for this vaccine started in 1952, but within the next two years it expanded making it one of the largest clinical trials that was going on in medical history. About “one million children from the ages six to nine became known as the Polio Pioneers” (salk). Which his mentor Thomas Francis Jr. was the one who directed the mass of vaccination to the school children. Before testing them on all these kids, he tried it on himself and his family which they developed anti polio antibodies, but had no negative reactions to it. It was clear and there were results that the vaccine actually worked. He was looked at as a hero for coming up with this vaccine and saving the children of the time. President Eisenhower had rewarded him by giving him a special citation at a ceremony that was being held at the white …show more content…
More than 57,000 cases in the U.S. Decade later, the numbers starting going down and the Salk vaccine was going to be replaced it with the live virus vaccine instead of the one that was being used which was the killing virus. Albert Sabin was the creator behind the live virus vaccine, it was less expensive and way easier to use then how it was before. Expensive or not Salk never earned money from this discovery or having it done, it was just distributed as widely as it needed to be. Colleagues of Salk didn’t approve much of what he was doing, they said “he hadn’t found anything new; he had just applied what was there” (pbs), which was not true. He came up with something that no one else really didn’t pay mind too. The timing of his successful vaccine was at the peak of polio devastation which of course made everyone blind to what was going