Dr. Jonas Salk's 100th birthday today! according to Google

[rurallib]

As a kid I remember the fear of polio and knew kids who had contracted it.
My parents best friend was a woman crippled from youth by polio.

What Jonas Salk did was transformative for the world at that time.
And IIRC he was a true hero in that he gave his team credit and never tried to make a big score from his discovery.

The world owes a great deal to Dr. Salk. May I say Thank you from the very bottom of my heart!

[littlewolf]

1. I too remember the fear of Polio thank you Dr. Salk.

Thank you for putting the people who manufacture
iron lungs out of business.

[belzabubba333]

2. yay my hero! THANKYOU DR. SALK

[Barack_America]

3. Great, great man.

Thank you for reminding me to remember him today.

[sarge43]

4. I remember the creepy collection boxes in the shape of iron lungs

Thank you, Dr Salk. You were a true healer.

[Thor_MN]

5. I knew several people that had had polio.

I worked my way through college by working at a nursing home. It floors me that the only thing preventing the global eradication of polio is lack of trust in just a few countries. An effective immunization push in those countries could wipe out polio in a year's time.

[rurallib]

6. BTW - I want to add that we avoided swimming pools, drinking fountains

any sort of place where we might catch the dreaded virus.
My mother was a nervous wreck watching out over her 3 kids.
Any cold or fever threw her into a tizzy for fear it was the onset of polio.

What I loved most about Dr. Salk was his humility. As I recall he was always self effacing. He merely wanted to stop this dread disease and then do it again on something else.

He was and always will be a true hero.

[Omaha Steve]

7. I remember....

Standing in line at the library to drink the serum.

K&R!

[mtasselin]

8. Hero

Dr. Salk was a true American Hero, he could have sold the cure for big money, but did the right thing. There should be a day of recognition for Dr. Salk.

[corkhead]

9. If he had been born 50 years later, he would have been forced to work on boner pills at Pfizer

Their most important mission is maintaining stockholder value; there's not as much money in polio cures.