The Washington Post, March 4th, 1993
Albert B. Sabin, 86, who developed the oral vaccine for poliomyelitis, died of congestive heart failure yesterday at Georgetown University Medical Center. It was estimated that by the time of his death about 5 million cases of polio and 500,000 deaths had been prevented by his vaccine worldwide. President Clinton called Sabin "one of the great heroes of American medicine." Sabin, an immigrant who was born in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok in 1906, became a towering figure in the world of medical research, and he worked on many other diseases besides polio. During World War II, he turn...
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