'Wooden' lung ingenious contraption for Polio Nov 22, 2009
Albert Sabin followed shortly thereafter with an oral vaccine, famously administered with sugar cubes. Since then, polio has been eradicated in the U.S. and the rest of the Americas, but is still endemic in several countries, including Afghanistan. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Many years later, a scourge returns Nov 17, 2009
The Salk vaccine, which used a killed virus to generate immunity, and a subsequent oral vaccine developed by Albert Sabin (using an attenuated live virus), dramatically reduced the incidence of polio in the United States. New cases declined to less than 1,000 in 1962 and just 121 in 1964. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
R.L. Kirschstein; NIH official helped ensure vaccine safety Oct 18, 2009
As a result, Dr. Kirschstein, then a young doctor at NIH, played a vital role in developing an effective test to ensure the safety of the Salk vaccine and an oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin. In the 1980s, Kirschstein organized funding for and mobilized a team of NIH researchers to investigate the emerging AIDS epidemic and to seek possible treatments, despite vociferous opposition from some conservative lawmakers and lobbyists. (Boston Globe)
A necessary pain Oct 8, 2009
Thanks to Salk and Albert Sabin, who created an oral polio vaccine, and the efforts of the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Rotary Foundation, the virus has been eradicated in most of the world. According to the Rotary Foundation, the disease is still endemic in only four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Africa: Tracking a Poliovirus May 19, 2009
The disease can be prevented by orally giving children aged under five a live weakened Sabin polio vaccine, named after Albert Sabin the scientist who developed the vaccine, or by a trained health worker injecting the inactivated Salk polio vaccine. Uncovering the route along which a virus spreads is critical. (allAfrica.com)
Commentary: Heroes in lab coats May 4, 2009
Greene says Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin gained fame for their work on polio ... In separate American laboratories, two men working separately -- Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin -- were determined to defeat the virus, to end the heartbreak ... Jonas Salk died in 1995 at the age of 80; Albert Sabin died in 1993 at the age of 86. (CNN -- Law)
Polio Victim's 30-Year Crusade Garners $22.5 Million Award Apr 2, 2009
However, litigation continues with regard to the risks posed by the oral vaccine developed by Dr. Albert Sabin, which was long the drug of choice in the campaign against the disease. Filed in 1981, Tenuto v. Lederle Laboratories is the oldest ongoing non-guardianship case in New York City, according to the Office of Court Administration. (Law.com)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
In 1993, Dr. Albert Sabin, the medical pioneer who helped conquer polio, died at his home of heart failure at age 86. In 1995, the last U.N. peacekeepers left Somalia. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Deadline: 2012; Rotary Sets New Goal to Eradicate Polio From the World Feb 18, 2009
" By 1916, a polio epidemic in New York heightened concern of polio and accelerated research into how the disease is spread. In 1931, Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Dame Jean MacNamara identified several types of poliovirus, known as types 1, 2 and 3. Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine against polio, an injectable inactivated (killed) polio vaccine (IPV), in 1954. That was followed by an oral vaccine against polio (OPV) developed by Dr. Albert Sabin in 1961, which became the vaccine of choice... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
