Cold War tensions and the polio vaccine Sabin vaccine from the Soviet side. However other Soviet virologists argued that the Salk vaccine could be considered safe, since the Americans tested it on their own people. They considered that the Sabin vaccine must be potentially dangerous because the Americans did not wish to test it on their own society. The documented achievement of the Sabin-Chumakov collaboration eventually trumped the ideological differences of the Cold War. Their oral live-virus vaccine became federally licensed in 1962, and used for over three decades to help eliminate polio globally, replacing the Salk vaccine. Using these vaccines, the threat of polio remains only
David Bruce (microbiologist) tsetse fly vector, of African trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness"). He was Surgeon-General for the duration of the First World War from 1914–19 at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London. "Brucella" is the genus and Brucellaceae is the family of the bacteria which was named after him, in recognition of his discoveries. "Brucella melitensis" is the cause of undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats. It is usually transmitted by goat's milk. "Trypanosoma brucei", the cause of sleeping sickness, is also named after him. Bruce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1899. He served as