Lindsay Graham

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

What did Albert Sabin do during this period?

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After World War II, fascism had been defeated, but polio had not.

And the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the March of Dimes, wanted researchers to develop a vaccine, and they wanted it quickly.

Jonas Salk spent two years identifying the three types of poliovirus that made humans ill.

While Sabin continued his own research, the two men did know one another.

What can you tell us about their relationship early on?

So there's an idea that Albert Sabin was in a race with Jonas Salk to create a polio vaccine.