Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk was born on October 20, 1914 in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrants. As the first member of his family to attend college, he developed a fascination with the influenza virus and sought a means to eliminate its index to infect bulk with influenza. After accepting an ap supermanment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began turn tailing with the National rear for Infantile paralysis and there began work on polio, the cure for which Jonas Salk would be cognize forever. In 1950, children throughout the United States were ill with polio, or poliomyelitis.Those children who did not die from the malady were left crippled. In some cases, adults promise polio as well. One of the most(prenominal) famous examples was president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was left in a wheelchair after a tour with the disease. Salk created a polio vaccine from a dead polio virus, which lost the capacity to infect once it was killed. It did, however, retain the ability to immunize any who were injected with the dead act of the virus. Later, other work was performed in run to create a wear vaccine that could be given orally (Salks vaccine had to be injected).The administration of this live vaccine failed, and Salks was used from that point on. Salk could have patented the vaccine and shape a rich man rather, he refused to do so in set to get the vaccine out to those who essential it quickly. Jonas Salks polio vaccine has whole eliminated the disease provided the vaccine is given. After his succeeder with polio, Salk created the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies and not still continued his research, but wrote many books as well. He passed away on June 23, 1995 at the age of 80.