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Old October 28th, 2014 #17
Vance Stubbs
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Short version: Salk was on a team researching a Polio vaccine. Near the end of its development Salk sent the prototype out as a finished product, to try and secure a name for himself. It worked, but people died because the vaccine hadn't been fully tested.

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