{"id":17902,"date":"2014-10-28T00:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:10:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-28T00:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:10:03","slug":"Jonas-Salk-100th-Birthday-Polio-vaccine-developer-s-extraordinary-achievement-celebrated-with-a-Doodle-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17902","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Salk 100th Birthday: Polio vaccine developer’s extraordinary achievement celebrated with a Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr Jonas Salk, the American scientists who developed the first successful polio vaccine, with a Doodle on its homepage. The Heart-warming illustration depicts two children holding up a sign reading \u201cThank you, Dr Salk!\u201d \u2013 a tribute to the virologist\u2019s work against a disease whose main victims were children.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the two years before his vaccine was made widely available, the average number of polio cases in the US was more than 45,000. By 1962, that number had dropped to 910.<\/p>\n

Salk graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1939 with his M.D. degree, and soon started work as a staff physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.<\/p>\n

He would then apply his talents to the field of research, becoming a fellow at the University of Michigan where he worked to develop a flu vaccine at the request of the US Army.<\/p>\n

By 1947, he was appointed director of the Virus Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the institution where he developed the techniques that would help him discover a vaccine for polio.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/jonas-salks-100th-birthday-google-doodle-celebrates-the-anniversary-of-scientist-who-developed-police-vaccine-9822226.html<\/p>\n

Jonas Salk – Biography – Doctor, Scientist — Jonas Salk’s 100th Birth Anniversary <\/strong>
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