SALK VACCINE Definition & Meaning

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Salk vaccine

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a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.

Salk vaccine

The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis . It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.

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Origin of Salk vaccine¹

First recorded in 1950–55; named after J. E. Salk

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When the Salk vaccine came out, we were among the first children who were vaccinated.

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Acceptance of these vaccines even survived setbacks such as the “Cutter incident” in which a Berkeley manufacturer of the Salk vaccine issued contaminated lots that sickened 40,000 children.

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While there, he witnessed a polio outbreak in the summer of 1955, the year the Salk vaccine became available.

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The Salk vaccine required three injections, plus a booster, which meant multiple trips to the doctor.

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That’s also true of polio, which lost its capacity to terrorize the public soon after mass inoculations with the Salk vaccine were launched in the mid-1950s.

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