"Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results"
Press release
By: Thomas Francis
Date: April 12, 1955
Source: Francis, Thomas. "Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results." Press Release. University of Michigan, April 12, 1955. Available online at http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/polioexhibit/press_r... ; website home page: http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/index.htm (accessed June 9, 2002)
About the Author: Thomas Francis (1900–1969), the lead researcher on the project described in this press release, was born in Gas City, Indiana, in 1900 and received his M.D. from Yale University in 1925. He isolated two strains of influenza between 1934 and 1940 and developed vaccines against both. In 1954 the University of Michigan appointed him to the National Foundation for Infantile...
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