“Sabin Sunday” April 24, 1960

• First US test of Albert Sabin’s live polio vaccine
    - 20,000 vaccinated 1st day
• Advantages:
    - Ease of administration
    - Intestinal and bodily immunity
    - Life long immunity
    - Breaks the chain of transmission
• Disadvantages:
    - Live virus spread: VAPP
    - One in 2.5 million doses usually in naïve hosts

Albert Sabin, MD

• Born in Poland
• Rockefeller Institute
• 1939-Associate Professor of Pediatrics
      Children’s Hospital
• Research interests:
    - Pneumonia
    - Encephalitis
    - Toxoplasmosis
    - Sandfly and Dengue fever
    - Cancer
    - virology

• 1965-1966 worldwide use prevented 5 million cases of
      polio and 500,000 deaths!
• 1972 Sabin donated strains of polio to the WHO
• Never patented the vaccine!
• Received the National Medal of Science 1970

Albert Sabin, MD

• Continued to work at 80 years of age
• Later years did research on cancer vaccines
• Died 1993 at the age of 87
• Buried in Arlington National Cemetary