And while we're on the subject of vaccine-makers, how about hero Jonas Salk? In the first half of the twentieth century, particularly the decade immediately after the second world war, polio was an enormous threat to the public health. But less than a century later, polio has largely vanished from the public consciousness, due to Dr. Salk's work to develop a vaccine.
And just like the she-roes and heroes over at the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program, Dr. Salk spent the last years of his life working on a vaccine to protect people against the spread of HIV. Hero!
Jonas Salk on Wikipedia
(Have a real-life hero or she-ro to nominate for this blog? Let me know at misslynn [at] misslynn [dot] com!)
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