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  AllRefer.com - Albert Sabin Information
Sabin was convinced that a live form would be longer-lasting and more effective, and in 1957 he succeeded in weakening the virus so that it lost its virulence.
Sabin was unable to test his new vaccine in America because, at an earlier stage of the Salk vaccine's development in 1954, a faulty batch caused paralytic polio in some children.
However, Sabin managed to interest the Russians in his vaccine, and subsequently was able to report in 1959 that 4.5 million vaccinations had been successfully carried out.
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  Albert Sabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) is a renowned American medical researcher who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for Polio.
Sabin studied medicine at New York University and developed an intense interest in research, especially in the area of infectious diseases.
Sabin's breakthrough occurred some five years later, when the United States Public Health Service endorsed his "live" virus vaccine for polio in 1961.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Albert Sabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) is a renowned Polish-American medical researcher who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for Polio.
Sabin was convinced that a live form would be longer-lasting and more effective, and in 1957 he succeeded in weakening the virus so that it lost its virulence.
Sabin was unable to test his new vaccine in America because, at an earlier stage of the Salk vaccine's development in 1954, a faulty batch caused paralytic polio in some children.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albert-Sabin   (794 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin, who developed the world's first oral polio vaccine, said in 1993 that he thought the problems posed by HIV would make it impossible to produce an effective Aids vaccine.
The oral vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, was licensed in 1962, and polio became a disease of the past, at least in the U.S., which saw its last wild virus in 1979.
The oral vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, was licensed in 1962, and polio became a disease of the past, at least in the United States, which saw its last wild virus in 1979.
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 Albert Bruce Sabin Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sabin was soon able to prove the B virus's relation to the herpes simplex virus, the cause of herpes in humans.
Sabin's goal from the outset was to find a live and safe variant polio virus that could be administered orally to combat poliomyelitis.
The battle that ensued between the supporters of the Salk and Sabin vaccines was finally won by the Sabin forces and hence it was a live virus vaccine that was used in the United States and the rest of the world to eradicate poliomyelitis.
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 Albert Bruce Sabin (www.whonamedit.com)
Sabin was born to a family of poor Jews in the Polish city of Bialystok, which was then in Russia.
The Sabin oral polio vaccine, commonly administered on a lump of sugar, was approved for use in the United States in 1960 and became the main defence against polio throughout the world.
Sabin was a member of a large number of national and foreign medical and scientific societies, and received 46 honorary degrees and numerous prestigious awards from around the world.
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 Vaccination, vaccines against poliomyelitis: injectable vaccine Jonas Salk oral vaccine Albert Sabin
Sabin complained when his vaccine was at times referred to in the West as the "communist vaccine," but under the circumstances the vaccine was a guaranteed success, as if one of Stalin's Five-Year Plans were to exceed all expectations.
Sabin was furious; the President of the Academy of Medical Sciences explained to him that this was due to a mistake in the English translation of the book, which had been written in Russian.
When Albert Sabin asked Charles Mérieux to manufacture his vaccine on an industrial scale, Mérieux declined because he considered the results of the Russian experiment to be inadequate (although the Mérieux Institute would later produce the oral vaccine).
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 Albert Sabin worldwidebase
Dokter Albert Sabin, geboren op 26 augustus 1906 en is samen met zijn collega Jonas Salk, één van die mensen die wij in naam van de ganse gemeenschap mogen bedanken.
Dokter Sabin ontwikkelde het 'Sabinvaccin', een vaccin tegen kinderverlamming (poliomyelitis), een vernieuwde versie van het vaccin dat dokter Salk in 1956 uitvond.
Sabin overleed in Polen in het jaar 1993.
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 Albert Sabin
Sabin were the pioneers and researchers who discovered the vaccine and serum to combat polio, a crippling and killing disease that affected millions of people throughout the world annually.
Sabin was born in Bialystok, Poland, on August 26, 1906, one of four children of Tillie and Jacob Sabin.
Sabin, meanwhile, had been conducting experiments on obtaining a live polio virus pill to be taken orally since 1952.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Sabin.html   (346 words)

  
 Albert Bruce Sabin, United States Army Physician
Albert B. Sabin, the pioneering researcher on viruses and viral diseases who developed the vaccine that is the main defense against polio in the United States and much of the rest of the world, died yesterday at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington.
The development of the Sabin polio vaccine was the culmination of 20 years of research on the nature, transmission and epidemiology of the three closely related virus types that cause poliomyelitis, which was more frequently called infantile paralysis when Dr. Sabin was a young scientist.
Sabin made Federal officials unhappy by saying he doubted there was as much danger from the swine flu as the public was being led to believe.
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 Sabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sabin Shrestha, A simple nepalese name specially denoting a male.
Sabin of Bulgaria, reigned between 765 and 766.
sabin unit of measurement of sound absorption of a surface (Wallace Clement Sabine)
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 polish consulate in sheffield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Albert Sabin was born in Bialystock and spent his early childhood there.
People vaccinated with Sabin's vaccine only infected others with a much weakened version of the disease and this conferred immunity to the unvaccinated population too.
Sabin refused to patent his vaccine insisting that the vaccine and its delivery be free of charge.
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 The Lasker Foundation | Former Award Winners, Clinical Medical Research 1965, Obituary
Albert Sabin, the person who developed the vaccine that is the main defense against polio in the United States and much of the rest of the world, died yesterday of congestive heart failure at Georgetown Medical Center.
Sabin's vaccine, which contained harmless polio viruses was developed by him and his colleagues at the University of Cincinnatti.
The development of the Sabin polio vaccine was the culmination of 20 years of research on the nature, transmission and epidemiology of the three closely related virus types that cause poliomyelitis, more frequently called infantile paralysis.
www.laskerfoundation.org /awards/obits/sabinobit.shtml   (948 words)

  
 Albert Sabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is delivered in a less invasive manner and can protect people who didn't receive the vaccine by spreading a weakened version of the virus which confers immunity to the disease to unvacinated members of the population.
Sabin refused to hold a patent on the vaccine, insisting that both the vaccine and its administration be delivered free of charge.
Sabin was recognized with numerous awards and honors for his medical research and was a powerful enemy of poverty and ignorance.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/sabin.html   (272 words)

  
 Albert B. Sabin Archives
Albert Sabin, developer of the oral, live virus polio vaccine, began his career in biomedical research in 1926 while still a student at New York University where he received his M.D. degree.
Sabin continued into his eighties to have a powerful and significant impact on the international scientific community in his capacity as medical statesman, consultant, and lecturer.
Sabin died in 1993, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
sabin.uc.edu /biography.cfm   (705 words)

  
 Deputies hunt for shooting suspect - July 30, 2004
Thursday, Sabin allegedly fired an undetermined number of shots from a small-caliber rifle at her 44-year-old brother Albert Sabin, who was on the front porch of the family’s trailer home in the 600 block of Minthorne Road.
Albert Sabin dove back into the house unharmed and the family called police.
Elizabeth and Albert’s brother, Larry Sabin, 59, who lives in the house and was home at the time, said he believes he was the intended victim.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/0730/local/stories/01local.htm   (638 words)

  
 Albert Sabin Biography and Summary
Albert Sabin was born on August 26, 1906 in Bialystock, Poland (then Russia) and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1921.
Albert Sabin, a noted virologist, developed an oral vaccine for polio that led to the once-dreaded disease's virtual extinction in the Western Hemisphere.
Albert Sabin developed an oral vaccine for polio that led to the once-dreaded disease's virtual extinction in the Western Hemisphere.
www.bookrags.com /Albert_Sabin   (302 words)

  
 Albert Sabin - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Albert Sabin (born 1906) is a renowned Polish-American medical researcher who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for Polio.
Sabin studied medicine at New York University and developed an intense interest in research, especially in the area of infectious diseases.
Sabin's breakthrough occurred some five years later, when the United States Public Health Service endorsed his "live" virus vaccine for polio in 1961.
www.music.us /education/A/Albert-Sabin.htm   (405 words)

  
 Albert S. Sabin biography and photo
The Albert Sabin family remained in Naperville until 1874 when they purchased a farm in Gilman, Illinois, and then later moved to Hinsdale, Illinois in the 1880s(?).
It is a mystery that Albert Sabin and Sarah Ellis married in Bath, Ohio in 1852 (recorded in the family Bible), when the Sabins had been in Illinois for almost twenty years.
Albert Sabin died April 13, 1903 in Hinsdale, Illinois and is buried in the Naperville Cemetery.
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 Albert Sabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Albert Sabin is a renowned Polish-American medical researcher who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for Polio.
Born in 1906, he came to America with his family in 1921 to escape Anti-semitism.
His product, prepared with cultures of attentuated polio viruses, could be taken orally, and prevented the actual contraction of the disease.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Albert_Sabin   (213 words)

  
 Albert Sabin, Oral Polio Vaccine Discovery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine
Sabin reasoned such immune children had either contracted the viral infection as infants (when they had partial immunity transferred from their mothers) or been infected by an attenuated or weakened strain of the virus, which had produced immunity without acute symptoms.
Sabin scoured the world looking for weak strains of polio virus, found three, and began to develop his oral, "live" vaccine, administered at first on a lump of sugar or in a teaspoonful of syrup.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org /about/history/sabin.htm   (536 words)

  
 Albert Sabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, EHandler: no quick summary.
New york university (nyu) is a large research university in new york city....
Sabin's breakthrough occurred some five years later, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 PULFER: Dr. Albert Sabin
Dr. Sabin's widow, Heloisa, looked for the little park when she came to town Tuesday and found the on-ramp for Interstates 71 and 75 south off Third Street is in its place.
Dr. Sabin, who never held a patent on the oral vaccine, didn't make a dime from it and steadfastly refused to allow his name to be used commercially.
Sabin tucked one in a bag with the oversized scissors and a scrap of the ribbon she had been asked to cut.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/03/29/loc_pulfer_dr_albert.html   (602 words)

  
 Sabin Vaccine Institute Joins RTI International Team To Reduce Disabilities Caused By Neglected Tropical Diseases ...
Sabin will assist in the efforts to control and eliminate a group of neglected tropical diseases that are the most common afflictions of humankind.
Sabin is part of a team lead by RTI International and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement the collaborative program, which is designed to treat more than 40 million people annually for five years.
Sabin Vaccine Institute's goal, with help from the USAID-funded initiative and other sources, is to take on and mitigate a global problem that would otherwise perhaps not garner the attention it deserves.
www.biospace.com /news_story.aspx?StoryID=30998&full=1   (288 words)

  
 Albert Sabin
Sabin was the developer of the oral live virus polio vaccine, which has saved the lives of countless millions.
Jonas E. Salk and Albert B. Sabin were the pioneers and researchers who discovered the vaccine and serum to combat polio, a crippling and killing disease that affected millions oAlbert Sabin (1906-1993) By Seymour "Sy" Brody Drs.
Jonas E. Salk and Albert B. Sabin were the pioneers and researchers who discovered the vaccine and serum to combat polio, a crippling and killing disease that affected millions of people...
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 Albert Bruce Sabin - Encyclopedia.com
Sabin, Albert Bruce, 1906-93, American physician and microbiologist, b.
He conducted research on viral and other infectious diseases and developed (c.1959) a live-virus vaccine for immunization against poliomyelitis.
The Sabin vaccine may be taken orally and provides longer immunity than the killed-virus vaccine.
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 Sabin Albert Bruce - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993), Polish-born American virologist, who developed an oral, live-virus poliomyelitis vaccine.
Albert, Lake also Albert Nyanza, lake, east central Africa, in western Uganda and to the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
Poliomyelitis control was made possible when, in 1949, the bacteriologist John Franklin Enders and his co-workers discovered a method of growing the...
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 Sabin, Albert definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Sabin, Albert: (1906-93) Pioneering researcher on viruses and viral diseases who developed the oral live-virus vaccine against polio.
Albert Bruce Sabin was born in Bialystok, Poland.
Sabin was the first to identify an agent called echovirus 9 as a cause of intestinal disease.
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 AEGiS-PRn: Sabin Foundation Calls for AIDS Vaccine Commitment by U.S. President for Year 2005
While Albert B. Sabin and Jonas Salk may have been intense rivals during their lives, the Foundations that each left behind to continue fighting disease will join for a symbolic "rapprochement" dedicated to creating an AIDS vaccine by 2005.
The Albert B. Sabin Foundation will be launching its new fund-raising campaign targeting concerned citizens to create a self- directed program, similar to The March of Dimes, "March of Dollars" campaign, to significantly suppplement government and private funding for HIV and other retro-virus vaccine research.
The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Foundation is a non-profit organization located in New Canaan, Conn., formed to carry on Dr. Sabin's vision.
www.aegis.com /news/pr/1995/PR951214.html   (538 words)

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