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Polio Epidemics and Public Health.
Summer Epidemics.
The Cost of Sanitation.
Military Significance.
Medical Treatment.
Poliovirus in Tissue Culture.
The names Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, developers in the 1950s of the vaccines used today, are the ones most often associated with the battle and conquest over polio. But in the 1940s Dr. John F. Enders, a Harvard virologist, managed to produce the poliovirus in test tubes, which meant that the incredibly expensive and relatively unproductive method of producing it in monkey spinal columns could now be bypassed. An enormous amount of virus in some form, either dead or greatly weakened, was needed before widespread production of a vaccine could begin. For his development of the test-tube technique that would lead to the manufacture of poliovirus Enders was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1954.Sources:
Roderick E. McGrew, Encyclopedia of Medical History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985), p...
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