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Thomas Francis at the University of Michigan. The field trials would include double-blind tests: Half would get the real vaccine and half would get a fake vaccine. Nobody but Dr. Francis knew who got the real one and who got the fake one. Not even Salk would know the results until Dr. Francis finished the study. The field trials began in the spring of 1954. The results would not be known for one year. After getting their parents’ approval, thousands of second graders lined up for vaccinations. Second-grade children were the most at risk for the disease.
But instead, he began working on a new threat—AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. AIDS is a deadly disease that attacks and destroys the human immune system. There is no cure and no vaccine. Salk saw AIDS as a line of research that was not being followed in the correct way. If it were to be done correctly, he’d have to do 39 it himself. This was the quiet arrogance that annoyed his colleagues. ” Until his death of heart failure on June 23, 1995, at the age of eighty, Jonas Salk moved ahead with his work in his own way.
Jonas Salk became a hero overnight. Many thought he would win the Nobel Prize for medicine, but he did not. President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited the Salk family to the White House, and Salk received a Congressional Medal of Honor. He also received honorary degrees from several universities and thousands of letters from children all over the country. Schools were named after him, and lots of baby boys in the mid-1950s were named Jonas. Salk never took money for his vaccine. When asked who owned it, he replied, “Well, the people, I would say.