Disease detectives are crucial for solving and controlling outbreaks and pandemics, playing a vital role in characterizing diseases, providing projections, developing interventions, and risking their lives to investigate and save lives, making their recognition and support essential.
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When Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two million American children, it marked a turning point in the fight against a highly infectious disease causing incurable paralysis or even death. Prior to Salk's discovery, between 25,000 and 50,000 cases were recorded each year in the United States alone, and little was known about how the virus spread.