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When Russian and US scientists worked together on vaccines
The vaccine’s name is no coincidence. It's a throwback to the time when Russia sent the first man-made satellite to space, on October 4, 1957, making it the first country to do so.
It led to the space race, which then charged the US to put a man on the Moon, the Earth's natural satellite, 13 years later, on July 20, 1969.
It was the height of a bitter Cold War rivalry between the two superpowers. In the 1960s, the US and the former Soviet Union threatened to blow each other up with nukes. It nearly led to an all-out war of mutually-assured destruction (MAD).
The enmity culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day confrontation between the two superpowers in 1962 that came as a result of the Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
But in the midst of this, US and Russian scientists — experts in virology — also worked together on at least two vaccines that helped saved the world.
When did the US and Russian virologists work together?
Secretly, top virologists from the US and Russia were also collaborating to develop vaccines, specifically against polio and smallpox, two of the major infectious diseases afflicting mankind till then.
Most kids today are given an oral polio vaccine, wh
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Dr. Robert Chanock Oral History 2001 A
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Oral History Interview Project
Interview #1 with Dr. Robert Chanock Conducted on January 11, 2001, by Peggy Dillon
at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
PD: Good morning, Dr. Chanock.
RC: Good morning.
PD: I’m meeting with you today to have a series of roughly chronological interviews that will chronicle your career and contributions to NIAID. I also hope that these interviews will serve as the starting point for other oral histories and to use them to help the Institute preserve its more than half century of history. So I’d like to start by going back a bit to your background prior to coming to the National Institutes of Health. I’m particularly interested in the events and circumstances that led you to pursue medicine and research. Let’s start by having you tell me about your background, your family, and your education leading up to medical school.
RC: My father was a very successful businessman in Chicago who did not go past the sixth grade. When it was time for me to consider college, he wasn’t very interested. In fact, he wanted me to go into business with him immed