Jonas Salk was born in New York City, October 28, 1914 and died in La Jolla, June 23, 1995 at the age of 80 years is a medical researcher and virologist United States, Salk is a graduate of New York University's physician's School of Medicine in 1993. He then worked as a staff physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. . Jonas Salk is best known through the discovery and development of the first polio vaccine is safe and effective. Salk discovered the polio vaccine in 1954 which is an inactivated vaccine (derived from live polio virus that is turned off). When the vaccine is given by injection. Making the polio vaccine followed by Albert Sabin oral polio vaccine that generates (dripped in mouth) that we know today. He was born in New York City, where his parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. Although they are not so formally educated, they want to see their daughters and triumphed. When taking the medical school at New York University, he came out of the association of his peers not just because of his academic excellence, but rather the desire to do medical research, not to be a practicing physician.
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Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was seen as a public health problem in the United States the most daunting, especially after the war. Annual Epidemic always worse and its victims are children. In 1952, it was reported that polio became a disease that is killing than any other infectious disease, with more than 300,000 cases and 58,000 deaths, mostly children .. Two years before artificial Salk polio vaccine is widely available, the number of children who suffer polio very much. In the US alone there are more than 45,000 children. But in 1962 the number dropped to 910 successfully.
In 1947, Salk received the agreement with the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. While working there, with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that is now the March of Dimes, Salk saw an opportunity to develop a polio vaccine that can fight, and make sure he's doing this job eight years later. Field tests were conducted according to the Salk O'Neill, "the most thorough program done throughout history in this field, involving 20,000 physicians and public health officials practical, 64,000 school personnel, and 220,000 volunteers." When news of the discovery was released on April 12, 1955, Salk hailed it as "miracle worker", and today it's almost become a "national holiday". He then showed his love to the public by refusing to patent the vaccine solely for the sake of personal gain,
Salk made it into the New York School of Medicine in 1934. But in the middle of the journey of education, Salk decided to quit school for the sake of doing medical research directly, not a trained physician. (Read: WHO: Polio Cases in Pakistan Most There)
In 1952, polio became the worst outbreak in human history. Polio affects nearly 58 thousand people and killed 3,143 people. Only 21 269 people, mostly children, were recovered from the paralysis.
The success of the Salk vaccine trial was announced on April 12, 1955. The Salk accolades and referred to as the "miracle worker". So festive, the success of the Salk made a national holiday at the time.
In 1957, the Salk vaccine began to be mass produced. Salk polio vaccine delivered worldwide, including Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium. The countries of polio immunization campaign began with the Salk vaccine's creation.
"The focus of this research is to find a safe and effective vaccine as soon as possible. I am not looking for personal gain. There is no patent," Salk said at the time. (Read: WHO Discover Effective Ways to Eliminate Polio)
However, upon the recommendation of various international parties, finally made the Salk vaccine patents with a value of US $ 7 billion (Rp 85 trillion). Salk died at the age of 80 years due to heart failure. Before he died, Salk utilize the rest of his life to find an HIV vaccine.
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