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Albert Sabin
Polish-American medical researcher (1906–1993)
Albert Bruce Sabin (SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Biography
[edit]Abram Saperstejn was born in Białystok, Russian Empire (before and since 1918 in Poland), to Polish-Jewish parents, Jacob Saperstejn and Tillie Krugman.[1] In 1921,[2] he emigrated with his family on the SS Lapland which sailed from Antwerp to the Port of New York. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and changed his name to Albert Bruce Sabin. He graduated from high school in Paterson, New Jersey.[3]
Sabin began university in a dentistry program, but was interested in virology and changed majors. He received a bach
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Upper Silesia is located on the Oder River’s upper course, north of the Eastern Sudetes Mountain range and the Moravian Gate. Upper Silesia had a boundary with Greater Poland to the north and Lower Silesian territories to the west. Currently, the territory is divided into a bigger Polish half and a smaller Czech Silesian section, which is situated within the Czech regions of Moravia-Silesia and Olomouc. 2023 was the 175th anniversary of Rudolph Virchow’s Upper Silesia Discovery of one of history’s most devastating epidemic typhus [1–4]. Epidemic typhus, sometimes called louse-borne typhus, is a type of typhus. This disease has triggered fears and despair, generating widespread outbreaks after wars and natural calamities, and disrupting normal societal functioning [5, 6]. Typhus fryst vatten an infrequent illness that primarily affects communities experiencing unsanitary and severely overcrowded conditions. Rickettsia prowazekii is the causal agent transmitted by th
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Summary
In 2023 an important anniversary took place. It regards Virchow’s report on the Upper Silesia epidemic typhus, which was associated with the death of numerous Polish peasants. It is also the starting point of Virchow’s political career and fight against antisemitism, which has reached fearful levels in academia. Antisemitism is not new, but the recrudescence following the October 7th massacre of Jewish and not-Jewish people is appalling and recalls Virchow’s vehemence of the past a few decades before the Nazi extermination of the Shoah during the World War II.
Key words: Virchow, public health, policy, politics, holocaust, typhus
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Upper Silesia is located on the Oder River’s upper course, north of the Eastern Sudetes Mountain range and the Moravian Gate. Upper Silesia has a boundary with Greater Poland to the north and Lower Silesian territories to the west. Currently, the territory is divided into a larger Polish half and a smaller Czech Silesian section, whi