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What did people think about him?

So let's get a sense of this man, Albert Sabin.

Let's begin with his upbringing.

What was his youth like, and how did he eventually get into virology?

But how did he get an interest in virology?

Now, after medical school and when Sabin began his residency training, a terrible polio epidemic hit New York, and he was commissioned to help handle the crisis at Bellevue Hospital, eventually ending up at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

How did his experiences with this polio outbreak early on and his time at the Rockefeller Institute afterwards, how did this influence his path as a scientist?

And that about brings us up to the outbreak of World War II when FDR, himself a polio survivor, was in the White House.

And his organization, eventually known as the March of Dimes, was busy raising money for treating polio victims.

It was a well-known and well-feared disease.

What did Albert Sabin do during this period?

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