Most of us today do not fear polio due to a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, yet truth be told, the vaccine was produced in large part due to a poor black woman who lived along the Mason Dixon line and died of cancer in 1951. So, what do Johns Hopkins University, Clover Virginia, a tobacco farmer's daughter, and polio have to do with each other? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this episode entitled, Immortal Cells, on When Science Makes History.
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