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Eureka! After much work and dedication, Sabin met with success. The World Health Organization (WHO) felt so confident about the effectiveness of the vaccine, that it ordered testing on a worldwide basis. In 1954, Sabin tested the vaccine on himself and his two daughters. In 1957, Sabin was invited to be involved with the administration of the vaccine in Mexico, Chile, Sweden, Japan, Holland, and the Soviet Union. Sabin, like Salk, did not patent his vaccine and did not profit from its discovery.
She spent a good deal of time playing basketball and eventually found that she was an excellent runner. In 1956, at the age of 16, Rudolph competed in her first Olympic games and won a bronze medal in the 4x4 relay. At the Rome Olympics, on September 7, 1960, she was the first American woman to win three gold medals. She won for the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and as the anchor in the 400-meter relay. In 1983, she was elected to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. After retiring from competition, Wilma became a track coach at Burt High School in Clarksville, Tennessee.
The organism can also be treated with special chemicals, such as aluminum salts when we want to make a tetanus toxoid vaccine, or formaldehyde for making other vaccines. Two scientists, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, worked independently to create a polio vaccine. The Salk polio vaccine was created by killing the virus with formaldehyde and then purifying the mixture to collect the dead virus. Sabin used a live, attenuated, or weakened, virus in his vaccine. In this type of vaccine, the virus is grown in culture at lower than normal temperatures.