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Development, large-scale evaluation and licensing of an inactivated poliovirus vaccine made widespread preventive vaccination possible. The 1955 milestone was followed by other vaccine designs and extensive public-health programmes.
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Salk is a named contributor, not the full trial, manufacturing or public-health roster. This entry covers the inactivated vaccine milestone; it does not claim polio was globally eradicated in 1955 or absorb Sabin’s later oral-vaccine work.
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Jonas Salk
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The Salk vaccine: a major step in preventing polio
Development, large-scale evaluation and licensing of an inactivated poliovirus vaccine made widespread preventive vaccination possible. The 1955 milestone was followed by other vaccine designs and extensive public-health programmes.
Scientific scope
Salk is a named contributor, not the full trial, manufacturing or public-health roster. This entry covers the inactivated vaccine milestone; it does not claim polio was globally eradicated in 1955 or absorb Sabin’s later oral-vaccine work.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Jonas Salk
Named source contributors; broader team, precursor or trial-group roster remains incomplete.