The process of making influenza vaccines is fundamentally unchanged since Jonas Salk injected the first flu shot in 1943.

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Then came the invention of a vaccine by Jonas Salk, one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.

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Over the course of his career, Grazer has called up everyone from Fidel Castro to Jonas Salk to soak up what they know.

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We use Power Ball technology to pick a potential Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Jonas Salk, Mies van der Rohe or Igor Sikorsky (all immigrants).

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And Jonas Salk's Epoch A sounds quite familiar in the reports about deciphering the human genome and identification of genetic basis to disease and ailments.

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The organization funded the two vaccines -- created by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin -- that would lead to the protection of most of the world against polio.

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"They've seen us make progress and want to be part of our success, " says Daly, who likens his quest to that of Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine.

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In separate American laboratories, two men working separately -- Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin -- were determined to defeat the polio virus, to end the heartbreak.

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In 1952 Jonas Salk (1914-1995) and Albert Sabin (1906-1993) raced to come up with a vaccine for poliomyelitis--a virus that causes inflammation of nerve cells in the spinal cord, which can cause paralysis, atrophy of the skeletal muscles and death.

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