Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

[KatrachoT]

When I get a chance I will stop by the cemetery where this man is buried and put flowers on his tomb.

[arenadri7]

Tribute - 28.October 1914 was born DR JONAS SALK, medical researcher, POLIO VACCINE produced at 1954.

[Trashcanman333]

There should be a National Monument to this man. Only big Pharma would probably Lobby against it, free medicine is not good for capitalism.

[danielhiryu]

"Can you patent the sun?" Thank you, Dr. Salk.

[jbond5150]

truly a great human being. we honor so many people throughout history who have killed millions for their own personal glory, exploited resources for nationalist purposes, while truly the people who should hold the highest praise are those that have saved potentially billions of lives of their own and future generations with no desire for glory. if there was ever a saint on earth, it was jonas salk.

[mkatz2395]

Thank you Jews :)

[jcali619]

This man is wonderful. Hear his morals when he says " You wouldn't patent the sun would you"? Can you think of any pharmaceutical company's today that think like this? Moreover, has anyone since Mr. Salk given humanity a cure for anything? The answer is no... and certain groups will go out of their way to make sure it doesn't happen.

[rainbowjacketgurl]

My grandmas bro died of polio:( and my grandma died of colon cancer! Eveyone in my family dies of a disease my aunt has cancer to and my mom just got heart surgery! And I just got ober pertusis

[ArinOngunTV]

@rainbowjacketgurl Sorry to hear, these sick minded people are poising our foods and drugs and know one knows about it because they only believe whats on CNN and FOX.

[drdeadparrot]

god bless him, a true human being

[16cathyarv]

my younger sister has a polio ;)

[starnjuy]

@16cathyarv why the happy face? she is screwed

[JamesTKirkCobain]

This is before the education scam was allowed to run amok and enslave graduates to a lifetime of debt which today forces them to do everything for money. Multi-billions takien in every year by Universities from students not to mention Government grants and donations, and these fuckers still raise tuition every single year. It`s the greatest scam going and no Politician dares confront it.

[TheWICCACHANNEL]

yes the opv is a live virus.the ipv is a inattactive virus.polio spreads from the gi track to the blood system, and finally the brain.the opv is mutated to travel no further than the gi, but can convert back.the ipv is a dead virus.dtp was also a bad one,but now we have the dtap which is much better

[robbaggott]

Jonas Salk testified before a Senate subcommittee saying that nearly all polio outbreaks since 1961 were caused by the oral polio vaccine.Also the vaccination actually created a new form of polio called Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.

[kagome4life456]

isnt that because the oral vaccine had a live polio virus in it?

[stephen7401]

@robbaggott

Prior to the vaccine there were 50,000 cases per year in the United States. After we are at about 10 cases per year. The newest strategy is to only give the killed vaccine (4 doses) which is much safer. You are right, tho, the 10 cases are from the vaccine (attenuated-OPV), very sad indeed. We haven't seen a "wild-type" case of polio in the US since 1979. Amazing.

[KB42PAH]

One of the best people in history of humanity.

A inspiration to all, a sign that greed does not corrupt all.

[DeuceMP2]

Amen to that.

[animeeclipse]

It's amazing and truly inspiring that he didn't patent the vaccine. It was shared with humanity.

[truvelocity]

The pharmaceutical company patented it and the investor, a politician, made an F'ing killing on this vaccine.

Bad business move for the inventor.

[NazurithsVideos]

You can not patent something that is already in the market place, so once they started distributing it with out a patent, no one could own it.

[DeuceMP2]

He chose not to patent it BEFORE it hit the market.

[DeuceMP2]

Thats a negative ghost rider, the patent is not owned to this day, it hit the open market and was unpatenable (if thats a word) after that.

[ubettaluvme]

@truvelocity Jonas Salk didn't WANT to patent the vaccine. Unlike a lot of people in today's world, he didn't care about fame and money.

[dusk1234567890]

@ubettaluvme

That's freakin un-American that is! He should've profited on other people's misery, American style!! USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!!

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Before the Jonas Brothers, someone was actually doing something meaningful with that godforsaken name!

[BreffmintsMDV2010]

LOL!!! You're right!

[hoochis]

@BinkieMcFartnuggets lol, that's the best comment i've read in a while