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In the early 1960s, the work paid off, first with the Salk vaccine, and soon after with the Sabin virus strains. Salk used chemical and heat treatment to kill poliovirus, then injected this inactivated virus into patients. The proteins of the destroyed virus “taught” the patients’ immune systems to recognize polio, protecting them against it.
