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What Salk Vaccine Prevents

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• an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

62%11 His vaccine replaced the original Salk vaccine for polio
noun

• United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

48%13 Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for this disease
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• an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

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