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Polio vaccine
How did the polio vaccine change the world?
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Polio vaccine
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Jonas Salk; polio vaccine
Historical mass vaccination programs in the United States
How did the polio vaccine change the world?
Children with polio and the administration of polio vaccine
Gloved hands draw liquid from a vial into a syringe, overlaid on a digitally colored microscopic image of a virus with round particles in clusters.
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Thomas Milton Rivers
American virologist