... " the people I would say, There is no patent ! Could you patent the sun ? "
There are three wild types of polio virus (WPV) – type 1, type 2, and type 3. People need to be protected against all three types of the virus in order to prevent polio disease and the polio vaccination is the best protection. There are two vaccines used to protect against polio disease, oral polio vaccine and inactivated poliovirus vaccine.
1 of 4: Moral Compass
2 of 4: the immortal cells of henrietta lacks
3 of 4: what is polio?
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" nanos gigantum humeris insidentes " It's Latin for a metaphor for (we are) "Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants" like Jonas Salk.
The Salk Vaccine is used worldwide to this day. It's estimated that he could have made $7 billion off of patenting the vaccine but he gave it to the people without hesitation after spending 7 years of his life developing the vaccine. HELA: HEnrietta lacks
But none of Jonas Salk's research would have been possible without the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks. Whose DNA led to countless cures and discoveries..
henrietta lacks:
There are three wild types of poliovirus (WPV) – type 1, type 2, and type 3. People need to be protected against all three types of the virus in order to prevent polio disease and the polio vaccination is the best protection.
There are two vaccines used to protect against polio disease, oral polio vaccine and inactivated poliovirus vaccine. |
4 of 4 : how vaccines work?
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The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus.
But how does this seemingly counterintuitive process work? Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut details the science behind vaccines. |