"He felt that he couldn't ask other parents to let him give this vaccine to their children if he wasn't willing to first try it on his own."
— Jonas Salk

January 1, 1970

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His son, Darrell Salk, as quoted in "At the Salk family table, a long conquest is begun" in Seattle pi (26 April 2004)