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Salk vaccine

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Salk vaccine [′sȯk vak‚sēn]
(immunology)
A killed-virus vaccine administered for active immunization against poliomyelitis.


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Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1955, Dr Thomas Francis, an epidemiologist on faculty at the University of Michigan, announced to the world that he had just completed a study demonstrating that the Salk vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent" in preventing paralytic poliomyelitis.
In a scenario reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election, The Immune Response Corporation (IRC) tried unsuccessfully to block the publication of the results of Study 806, a study aimed at assessing whether Remune (also known as the Salk vaccine or HIV-1 immunogen) in combination with antiviral drugs could keep persons healthy for a longer period of time than antivirals alone.
Between 1959 and 1965, research on pregnant women showed the incidence of brain tumors in children of Salk-vaccinated mothers to be 13 times greater than in children of mothers who hadn't received the Salk vaccine.
 
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