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title: "Development of the Polio Vaccine"
year: 1955
country: "United States"
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recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1955-01-01"
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# Development of the Polio Vaccine

> Jonas Salk's successful polio vaccine trials and public rollout eliminated one of the 20th century's most feared epidemic diseases and transformed vaccine development globally.

## Summary

The Development Policy Centre (Devpol) is an aid and development policy think tank based at the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Devpol independently conducts research on Australian aid policies and the development of Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands region.

## Sources

- [Development Policy Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_Policy_Centre) - Wikipedia

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