Karen Torgaly

And he had his own health issues.

He had some significant heart problems and he would still go to Brazil.

He went to India.

He went wherever people invited him to go for the sake of the children.

And he gave his time and his vaccines.

In 1988, in El Salvador, there had been years and years of fighting between several factions, and it was so dangerous for people that the children could not get vaccinated.

Well, the Catholic Church, along with UNICEF from the World Health Organization, arranged for there to be a one-day ceasefire just for the purpose of getting the children vaccinated, and both sides agreed to that.

So on that day, they had a mass vaccination for all the children.

And Albert Sabin came to lend his support.

And people knew him because he was famous by that time.

They recognized his pictures with his white hair and his beard.

And by that time, he was 82 years old.

But he lent his support.

And there was one story that even some of the soldiers helped give the vaccine.

That was the Nobel Prize.

Neither Salk nor Sabin got the Nobel Prize, and there's a good reason for that.

Neither of them, in the development of their vaccines, did anything that was unique from the vaccine world that could be considered prize-worthy.

So they built on the experience of others, you know, as far as determining the strains of viral polio that they wanted to include in their vaccines, how they inactivated it or killed it.

Those are all things that had been done before.

What they did was just refine the process pretty much.