The organization funded the two vaccines -- created by Jonas Salk and AlbertSabin -- that would lead to the protection of most of the world against polio.
In separate American laboratories, two men working separately -- Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. AlbertSabin -- were determined to defeat the polio virus, to end the heartbreak.
In 1952 Jonas Salk (1914-1995) and AlbertSabin (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.