Albert Sabin was a Polish-American physician and virologist who developed a live, orally administered polio vaccine using weakened poliovirus strains, an alternative to Jonas Salk's earlier injected inactivated vaccine. Sabin's oral vaccine, first used widely from 1961, was cheaper to produce, needed no needle, and induced longer-lasting intestinal immunity that could interrupt transmission within a community, making it the vaccine of choice for mass eradication campaigns for decades; its live virus, however, carries a very small risk of vaccine-derived paralytic polio that Salk's inactivated vaccine does not, a tradeoff this atlas already records as an open question.
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He developed the oral polio vaccine.
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.
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Jonas Salk, Healers Developed a competing, later polio vaccine strategy (live oral vs. Salk's injected inactivated vaccine); this atlas already records the eradication-strategy tradeoff as an open question.
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Live, oral vaccine, commercial use from 1961.
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Wikipedia- Development of the oral vaccine; Comparison to Salk's vaccine; Vaccine-derived polio risk
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August 26, 1906
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March 3, 1993
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Albert Bruce Sabin ( SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906, March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.
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