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Who discovered the Polio Vaccine?
ANone of these
BJonas Salk
CSelman Waksman
DJaber Ibn Hayan
Correct answer
B. Jonas Salk
Explanation
Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin. In the 1950s Salk and Sabin developed separate vaccines—one from killed virus and the other from live virus—to combat the dreaded disease polio. Jonas Salk became a national hero when he allayed the fear of polio with his vaccine, approved in 1955.