Autographs
Dr. Albert B. Sabin Signed Vignetted First Day Postal Cover
DOCTOR ALBERT B. SABIN (1906-1993). Inventor of the Oral Polio Vaccine, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
September 11, 1964-Dated, First Day Postal Cover measuring 6.5" x 3.5" and fully Signed, "Albert B. Sabin", Choice Extremely Fine. His signature can be found in the lower left quadrant of the Cover in bold deep black ink, "Albert. B. Sabin" and is placed below the affixed 5 Cent postage stamp featuring two busts of the "Doctors Mayo." To the left on the cover is a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Mayo Foundation featuring the Doctors Mayo. A postmark is found in the middle of the cover from Rochester, MN, the home of the Mayo Clinic.
ALBERT B. SABIN (1906-1993). Polish American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine. The Sabin vaccine is an oral vaccine containing weakened forms of strains of polio viruses. Salk's vaccine was effective in preventing most of the complications of polio, but did not prevent the initial intestinal infection.
The Sabin vaccine is easier to give than the earlier vaccine developed by Salk and its effects last longer. It worked in the intestines to block the poliovirus from entering the bloodstream. In the intestines, Sabin had discovered, the poliovirus multiplied and attacked. Thus, the oral vaccine broke the chain of transmission of the virus and allowed for the possibility that polio might one day be eradicated. From 1969-1972, Sabin served as the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.