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Discovery of Poliomyelitis Virus--- Basis for Combating Poliomyelitis
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2007-9-26
Austrian Doctor Karl Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1930 for his discovery of blood type. He and his partners separated poliomyelitis virus and affirmed that poliomyelitis virus was the very pathogen resulting in poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis).
J.F. Enders (1897 to 1985), American Senior Doc., F. C. Robbins, American Senior Children Doc., born in 1916 and T. H. Weller, American Senior Doc. and virologist, born in 1915 together originated tissue culture technique of poliomyelitis virus and established the foundation for the bacterin preparation for the virus. They won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1954 together. Their invention resulted in the birth of bacterin for infantile paralysis.
After successfully eradicating smallpox, WHO listed poliomyelitis as the second infectious diseases that should be eliminated. Successful development of poliomyelitis inactivated vaccine (IPV) for injection in 1955 symbolized the very beginning of combating poliomyelitis.
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Organizer:
Beijing Municipal Association for Science & Technology
Undertaker: Beijing Science & Technology
Consulting Center,
Information Center of Beijing Municipal Association for
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