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By Kevin Kimberlin<\/h4>\n
\"Polio
Polio hero, Dr. Jonas Salk, with business partner, Kevin Kimberlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0World Health Organization<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0recently concluded that the wild polio virus could be eradicated within 12 months as the health community prepares for the global adoption of Dr. Jonas Salk\u2019s polio vaccine. This 60 year battle, from 1955 to 2015, has been a humanitarian cause without parallel. The hope began with the late Dr. Salk, and now his vaccine may soon end polio forever.<\/p>\n

Today, 155 countries are completing a concerted switch from the three-strain (trivalent) to a two-strain (bivalent) polio vaccine during a 2-week time period that ended May 1, 2016. Since the Type 2 wild polio virus has been eradicated, the final step will be achieved when Types 1 and 3 disappear. The Salk vaccine will prevent future outbreaks. Bill Gates has called the end of polio \u201ca chance at one of the greatest successes of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Salk virtually eliminated polio in the U.S. with his noninfectious vaccine. After it was declared safe and effective in 1955, Dr. Salk found himself \u201cranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the world\u2019s most revered people,\u201d according to author\u00a0Charlotte Jacobs<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in her biography,\u00a0\u201cJonas Salk<\/em>\u2014<\/em>A Life.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Subsequently however, a less expensive, infectious vaccine was brought to market. On rare occasions this attenuated, live virus vaccine mutates and spreads the disease it was designed to prevent. In 2015, the infectious vaccine accounted for 30% of the cases of polio recorded worldwide (32 of 106 total cases), according to \u201cPolio This Week\u201d published by the\u00a0Global Polio Eradication Initiative<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Salk fought this injustice for the rest of his life: giving lectures, writing papers, and presenting safety data to health authorities. Working with Jonas, focused though he was on his AIDS vaccine, he never stopped thinking about his fight against polio.<\/p>\n

Dr. Salk\u2019s safety data, combined with the intense interest in his HIV vaccine work, prompted a group of polio survivors who had been crippled by the infectious vaccine to lobby in Washington, D.C. against its use.\u00a0Dr. Walter Orenstein<\/a><\/strong>, director of the National Immunization Program at the\u00a0Centers of Disease Control and Prevention<\/a><\/strong>, saw the disfigurement caused by the oral polio vaccine (OPV) and became a staunch advocate of the safer Salk approach.<\/p>\n

Dr. Orenstein\u2019s support continues, as noted by his recent co-authored article in\u00a0The New England Journal of Medicine\u00a0<\/em>(February 11, 2016)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in which he states \u201c…it is of paramount importance to discontinue the use of OPV after polio eradication has been certified.\u201d Dr. Salk\u2019s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) will replace it because, as Orenstein points out, \u201cIPV provides immunity against all three polioviruses without generating any infectious vaccine-associated polioviruses.\u201d Once that happens, polio will be eradicated thanks to the efforts of over a million volunteers and donors.<\/p>\n

I was fortunate to work closely with\u00a0Dr. Salk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0through a research company that we founded together, and today I celebrate this monumental achievement. Victory will demonstrate that people from every country can set aside differences and join together to conquer a common foe.<\/p>\n

About Kevin Kimberlin<\/a><\/strong>
\nKevin\u00a0Kimberlin is the Chairman of\u00a0Spencer Trask & Co.<\/a><\/strong>, an advanced technology development company. He has distinguished himself as a founder or initial funder of seminal companies in mobile telephony, the internet, and healthcare transformation. Pioneering the field of immune therapy, Mr. Kimberlin and Jonas Salk developed an AIDS vaccine and the technical foundation for the first FDA-approved cancer vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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