Polio challenge
Dr Albert Sabin, the Pol-ish-born researcher who discovered an oral polio vaccine, has spurred Rotary International to reach its goal of eradicating polio by 2005. "I hope you will dedicate yourselves to work until the objective — which can be achieved — will be achieved,” said Dr Sabin, aged 79, accepting the Rotary award for World Understanding. The award, the group’s highest honour, provides 10 scholarships in Dr Sabin’s name valued at more than SUSIIO,OOO to allow foreign study next year by students in developing countries, where as many as 500,000 new cases of polio are reported annually. Dr Sabin's vaccine went into use in 1961 and, with the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in 1954, has virtually eliminated the paralysing disease in developed nations.—Kansas City.
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Press, 29 May 1985, Page 46
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