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Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
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"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my
intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it.
It's my partner."
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| Polio, a disease that affects the nervous system and causes a weakening of the muscles and often paralysis, affected adults and children across the world throughout the first half of the 20th century, its most prominent victim the former present Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Dr. Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine and began administering it in 1954, however, the numbers of victims decreased dramatically, and today the disease is almost eradicated. |
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