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Jonas Salk; polio vaccine
How did the polio vaccine change the world?
Watch archival footage of children with polio, and see Jonas Salk administerpolio vaccine as the nationwide immunization effort began
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Jonas Salk: Media

American physician and medical researcher
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How did the polio vaccine change the world?
Learn how the polio vaccine, whose original formulation was announced by Jonas Salk...
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Watch archival footage of children with polio, and see Jonas Salk administerpolio vaccine as the nationwide immunization effort began
Archival footage showing children with polio, Jonas Salk giving injections of vaccine,...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Jonas Salk; polio vaccine
Jonas Salk vaccinating a young girl for polio in 1953.
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
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