Albert B. Sabin is related to virology, and in particular with the study of poliomyelitis and development of a vaccine against this disease that is spread throughout the world in the sixties and seventies during the twentieth century. Sabin came from a Jewish family. Born in Bialystok (Poland) on August 26, 1906. Due to the German anti-Semitism, he emigrated with his family to the States States in 1921 and later went to New York with the aim of studying dentistry. This race was not satisfied and moved to the School of Medicine, earning the title of doctor of medicine en1931.
polio epidemic in the summer of 1931 and the recommendations of the bacteriologist William Hallock led him to study the cause of polio.
In 1935 he began working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (New York). Here his goal was to demonstrate that the polio virus could develop into nerve tissue outside the body, one year later showed that the virus could also be found in the digestive tract affected.
Jonas Edward Salk había inventado una vacuna contra los tres tipos de virus de la poliomielitis, pero tenía el inconveniente de que era intravenosa. Sabin consiguió crear una vacuna a base de virus vivos que pudiera administrarse por vía oral, que fuera también trivalente y que produjera una protección más duradera. Esta vacuna se administraba en un terrón de azúcar, de esta forma se difundió en seguida por todo el mundo en 1957. Sabin declinó beneficiarse económicamente de su descubrimiento.
El hecho de utilizar una vacuna de administración oral en vez de parenteral, hizo muchísimo más fácil su aplicación masiva y, gracias a ello, This terrible disease has its days numbered. It is thought that in the year 2010 will be eradicated from the face of the Earth.
work Author: Gilaberte Martínez, Angela.
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