Polio Part 2. Vaccines. Ep. 19

chemsmithOctober 31, 2020January 4, 2023Biochemistry, Biotechnology, epidemiology, Pandemics, Science, Technologyaids, bacteria, black death, bubonic plague, cholera, coronavirus, covid, CRISPR, epidemic, epidemiology, flu, gene therapy, hiv, influenza, malaria, measles, MERS, pandemic, pathogen, phage therapy, polio, retrovirus, SARS, smallpox, spanish flu, toxin, typhus, vaccine, virus

The development of them (drama!). Koprowski’s live attenuated vaccine vs. Salk’s dead-virus injectable vaccine. How Koprowski’s vaccine was made (wild science). Experimenting on disabled or prison populations (not cool). Roosevelt and the March of Dimes. The Koprowski/Sabin sugar cube vaccine. Legacy of Jonas Salk. Some real polio stories I cultivated from folks on FB. 17 min

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