Hormesis and the Salk Polio Vaccine

Hormesis and the salk polio vaccine.

The production of the Salk vaccine polio virus by monkey kidney cells was generated using the synthetic tissue culture medium, Mixture 199. In this paper's retrospective assessment of this process, it was discovered that Mixture 199 was modified by the addition of ethanol to optimize animal cell survival based on experimentation that revealed a hormetic-like biphasic response relationship. This...

Patenting the Sun. Polio and the Salk Vaccine. Jane S. Smith. Morrow, New York, 1990. 413 pp. + plates. $22.95.

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The 1954 Salk poliomyelitis vaccine field trial.

Polio vaccine and retroviruses.

In this paper we consider the main steps in the process of manufacture of oral polio vaccine and assess the probable clearance factor for HIV retrovirus at each step. We conclude that the processes employed would have eliminated retrovirus contamination for all practical purposes.

April 12, 1955--Tommy Francis and the Salk vaccine.

April 12, 1955, was supposed to be Tommy Francis’s day. At 10:20 a.m., the distinguished epidemiologist was scheduled to conduct an international press conference in Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan. The topic was the field trial he had just completed — the largest of its kind ever — evaluating the efficacy of the poliovirus vaccine developed by Jonas Salk at the University of P...