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I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.

— Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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Quote from 1949 on the development of a poliomyelitis vaccine, which was developed later that year.

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