Walter Orenstein on Vaccines
Dr. Orenstein has witnessed many of the horrors of vaccine-preventable diseases, having worked on smallpox eradication, polio elimination, and measles control at the CDC.
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History of Vaccines
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur is truly the father of microbiology, having developed the first rabies vaccine, pasteurization, and the germ theory of disease.
Polio Pioneers
The Polio Pioneers have been described as “the largest clinical trial in history,” proving that the Salk polio vaccine was safe.
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine in 1955, an inactivated vaccine that we still use today.
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