- Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist
| Born: | 28 October 1914 Comment | | When did Jonas Salk die? / Died | 23 June 1995 | | How many years did Jonas Salk live? / Lived | 80 years | | Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
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Jonas Salk facts
- He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines
- Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician
- In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a scientist physician at Mount Sinai Hospital
- Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr
- Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered one of the most frightening public health problems in the world
- In the postwar United States, annual epidemics were increasingly devastating
- The 1952 U
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- epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's history
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