Fun Fact: Jonas Salk

Posted by admin on October 26, 2009 under Fun Facts, Jonas Salk Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment

In the mid 1950′s there was a huge scare over polio, a cripling disease that was easily spread. Polio victims were often placed in metal containers (iron lungs, as they were called) to help them breathe. Dr. Jonas Salk invented a vaccine against polio; shortly after that, Dr. Albert Sabin developed a similar one. The government initiated a program to vaccinate everyone. I remember our whole family going up to our school one day and lining up for a cube of sugar which contained the vaccine. One sweet mouthful, and the threat was gone. In the 1950′s we wiped out this horrible disease.