Jonas Edward Salk

Hawra Almasoud
EAP 220
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Dr. Jonas Edward Salk

Dr. Jonas Edward Salk has many accomplishments as a great medical researcher and virologist, but he is also worthy of the title hero because he discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine, and he insisted on his faith in his abilities to create something to help people live healthily without polio.

Even though scientists believe it was impossible to find treatment works very well with Poliovirus, but Dr.Salk found it. Because it was thought to be impossible to find the treatment, Dr.Salk insisted on his faith in his abilities to create something, in order to help people live healthily without polio. He decided to focus his research on polio, the inability of scientists before him to appropriate treatment made has the incentive to create a vaccine without mistake. He spent many hours a day inside his lab working and trying to
discover the treatment. He spent many hours a day inside his lab working and trying to discover the treatment. Not only did he work in his lab to isolate poliovirus, but he also worked to know how the polio virus works inside the human body. By 1951, his research indicated the presence of three distinct patterns of viruses children Poliovirus paralysis, and was able to develop a vaccine from the "virus killed"; where the development of these viruses in the lab, and then destroy them, so that they become ineffective and is capable of causing the disease.

At that time, there was a lot of research done, so Dr.Salk knows that he can't make the same mistake, which the other scientists made it, so he attempt to reach an effective vaccine to eradicate this disease.
The failure experiments gave Dr. Salk a lot of support for his faith to discover the treatment, As result of that research Dr. Salk made his first step of discovery, by trying polio virus inside the real human body. Initial tests on the vaccine began in 1952, and expanded in the next two years to become one of the largest clinical trials in medical history. Nearly two million children have received the vaccine during the stage of the experiment. These efforts were supported by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and when it has been approved for general use of the vaccine,Dr. Jonas Salk turned into a national hero and he was the first who found an effective vaccine against polio. In other words, there were had many scientists worked to discover the treatment, but Dr. Salk worked harder than them, so he was the first scientist discover the polio
virus.

However, despite the huge detected and the enormous profits that could have been obtained because of his innovation for this vaccine, Dr.Salk refused to patent the invention in his name in 1955, recording, and to his desire to have the vaccine available to all. When asked about the reason, simply Wholesale associated with his name forever as an example of scientific dedication in the service of humanity he replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?". As a result of his discovery, Dr. Salk consider a hero.