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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Mon Apr 13, 2015, 07:29 PM Apr 2015

Polio Vaccine Found "Safe And Effective" 60 Years Ago: What Would Salk Think Today?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/04/13/polio-vaccine-found-safe-and-effective-60-years-ago-what-would-salk-think-today/

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It was 60 years ago yesterday that the nation heaved an enormous collective sigh of relief. The largest clinical trial for a vaccine in history had concluded, the data had been collected and analyzed, and the results were announced on April 12, 1955, coincidentally the ten-year anniversary of polio sufferer Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death: Jonas Salk‘s inactivated polio vaccine was “safe, effective and potent.”
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Polio Vaccine Found "Safe And Effective" 60 Years Ago: What Would Salk Think Today? (Original Post) LiberalElite Apr 2015 OP

He would take one look at the anti-vaxxers nowadays... Archae Apr 2015 #1

And 60 years later, we still haven't made the polio virus extinct. Thor_MN Apr 2015 #2

He would think the anti-vaxxers are either crazy, or, more likely Doctor_J Apr 2015 #3

He would think that we have forgotten the dangers of the illnesses against which we vaccinate LeftishBrit Apr 2015 #4

Archae

(46,359 posts)

1. He would take one look at the anti-vaxxers nowadays...

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2015, 09:12 PM

Apr 2015

And tell them they are full of it.

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

2. And 60 years later, we still haven't made the polio virus extinct.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 07:56 AM

Apr 2015

If there was a global effort worth pursuing, this would be it. With relatively low cost, it could be accomplished in just a few years.

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

3. He would think the anti-vaxxers are either crazy, or, more likely

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 09:50 AM

Apr 2015

have figured out how to get rich off of a new epidemic.

LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)

4. He would think that we have forgotten the dangers of the illnesses against which we vaccinate