But Jonas Salk, a medical researcher and budding virologist, was keen on the idea of safer, killed-virus vaccines. He believed the same principle would work for polio, and he was right.

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical scientists of the century. Though his first words were reported to be "dirt, dirt," his early thoughts were not on studying germs but on going into law.

Jonas Salk did incredible things for our world, revolutionizing medicine by helping to create the flu and polio vaccine and transforming vaccine preparation in general. But he also tested those ...

In April of 1955, fearing the polio epidemic sweeping the US, Josephine Gottsdanker took her five-year-old daughter Anne to the pediatrician to receive Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine. Four days ...

There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. This infectious viral disease attacks the nerve cells ...

Millions of people around the world probably best recognize the name of Jonas Salk - who died at age 80 of congestive heart failure on June 23 in La Jolla, Calif. - as that of the discoverer of the ...

Just three months later, Jonas E. Salk announced that he had successfully tested his dead polio virus vaccine on 440,000 elementary school students, and the United States Public Health Service ...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk Institute) was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, (polio vaccine), Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick as an independent, private-not for profit ...

which was opened in 1963 by famed scientist Jonas Salk. Hunter’s impact is felt across the United States and abroad in the form of his former students — or as he calls them, “scientific ...

The Levittown School District has announced that Jonas E. Salk Middle School has been named a 2025 State School of Character by Character.org, a designation that recognizes the school’s deep ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Residents in Mira Mesa are expressing their frustration over ongoing delays in the construction of a new park adjacent to Jonas Salk Elementary School. After hearing from ...