OCTOBER 28/CHESHVAN 13
שבת פרשת לך לך
1914:
Birthday of Jonas Salk, developer of the first successful polio vaccine (1955). Through his efforts and those of Albert Sabin, polio which had killed or crippled hundreds of thousands of people, was almost entirely eradicated.
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