Salk vaccine
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While there, he witnessed a polio outbreak in the summer of 1955, the year the Salk vaccine became available.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022
The Salk vaccine required three injections, plus a booster, which meant multiple trips to the doctor.
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2022
In his efforts to have Sabin’s vaccine delicensed, he was overruled by the major medical decision-makers, and by 1968, U.S. pharmaceutical companies had stopped manufacturing the Salk vaccine.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021
A small Berkeley manufacturing firm, Cutter Laboratories, allowed a live polio virus to contaminate some of its batches of the Salk vaccine, which was based on a deactivated virus.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2020
With those cells, scientists helped prove the Salk vaccine effective.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
