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The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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American inventor of the polio vaccine (1914–1995)
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Vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis
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Fairfax County, Virginia
County in Virginia, United States
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