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Whose invention led to the development of polio vaccine?

A

Linus Pauling

B

Jonas Salk

C

Rovert Wellberg

D

Ernest Haeckel

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The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk and a team at the University of Pittsburgh that included Julius Younger, Byron Bennett, L. James Lewis, and Lorraine Friedman, which required years of subsequent testing.
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